--- gdb/ppc-linux-tdep.c
+++ gdb/ppc-linux-tdep.c
@@ -1065,6 +1065,7 @@
 {
   struct gdbarch_tdep *tdep = gdbarch_tdep (gdbarch);
 
+#if 0
   /* NOTE: jimb/2004-03-26: The System V ABI PowerPC Processor
      Supplement says that long doubles are sixteen bytes long.
      However, as one of the known warts of its ABI, PPC GNU/Linux uses
@@ -1074,6 +1075,7 @@
      double' on PPC GNU/Linux are non-conformant.  */
   /* NOTE: cagney/2005-01-25: True for both 32- and 64-bit.  */
   set_gdbarch_long_double_bit (gdbarch, 8 * TARGET_CHAR_BIT);
+#endif
 
   if (tdep->wordsize == 4)
     {