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+/*
+ * OpenRISC Linux
+ *
+ * Linux architectural port borrowing liberally from similar works of
+ * others.  All original copyrights apply as per the original source
+ * declaration.
+ *
+ * OpenRISC implementation:
+ * Copyright (C) 2003 Matjaz Breskvar <phoenix@bsemi.com>
+ * Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
+ * et al.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __ASM_OPENRISC_LINKAGE_H
+#define __ASM_OPENRISC_LINKAGE_H
+
+#define __ALIGN      .align 0
+#define __ALIGN_STR ".align 0"
+
+#endif /* __ASM_OPENRISC_LINKAGE_H */