diff --git a/lldb/test/lang/c/bitfields/TestBitfields.py b/lldb/test/lang/c/bitfields/TestBitfields.py
index 0b5c51001afb..380246ddd6b0 100644
--- a/lldb/test/lang/c/bitfields/TestBitfields.py
+++ b/lldb/test/lang/c/bitfields/TestBitfields.py
@@ -152,7 +152,12 @@ class BitfieldsTestCase(TestBase):
         self.DebugSBValue(bits)
         self.assertTrue(bits.GetTypeName() == 'Bits', "bits.GetTypeName() == 'Bits'");
         self.assertTrue(bits.GetNumChildren() == 10, "bits.GetNumChildren() == 10");
-        self.assertTrue(bits.GetByteSize() == 32, "bits.GetByteSize() == 32");
+        test_compiler = self.getCompiler()
+        if "gcc" in test_compiler:
+        # Clang ignores the align attribute, so this structure isn't padded out to 
+        # 32 bytes there as the test author intended.  Suppress this test for clang
+        # till somebody has a chance to go rewrite the test source to be this big portably.
+            self.assertTrue(bits.GetByteSize() == 32, "bits.GetByteSize() == 32");
 
         # Notice the pattern of int(b1.GetValue(), 0).  We pass a base of 0
         # so that the proper radix is determined based on the contents of the