diff --git a/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/powerpc.h b/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/powerpc.h
index eb594a0..f490f64 100644
--- a/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/powerpc.h
+++ b/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/powerpc.h
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
 
 #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.     */