diff --git a/sysdeps/hppa/abort-instr.h b/sysdeps/hppa/abort-instr.h
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+/* An instruction privileged instruction to crash a userspace program.
+
+   We go with iitlbp because it has a history of being used to crash
+   programs.  */
+
+#define ABORT_INSTRUCTION asm ("iitlbp %r0,(%r0)")