diff --git a/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/powerpc.h b/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/powerpc.h
index f490f64..eb594a0 100644
--- a/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/powerpc.h
+++ b/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/powerpc.h
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@
 
 #include "../all_aligned_atomic_load_store.h"
 
-#define AO_load(addr) AO_load_acquire(addr)
-
 #include "../test_and_set_t_is_ao_t.h"
         /* There seems to be no byte equivalent of lwarx, so this       */
         /* may really be what we want, at least in the 32-bit case.     */