diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 778df20..03b8c23 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ riot-build = { version = "< 0.2.0", optional = true }
 riot-rs-core = { version = "< 0.2.0", optional = true }
 
 [build-dependencies]
-bindgen = "^0.64"
+bindgen = "^0.69.4" # starting 0.70, there is something that goes wrong around calculating native's max_align_t
 shlex = "^1.3"
 serde_json = "1"
 serde = { version = "1", features = [ "derive" ] }