diff --git a/internal/buffer/memclr.s b/internal/buffer/memclr.s
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+// Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+// +build amd64 arm64 ppc64 ppc64le
+
+// Assembly code isn't subject to visibility restrictions, so we can jump
+// directly into package runtime.
+//
+// Technique copied from here:
+//     https://github.com/golang/go/blob/d8c6dac/src/os/signal/sig.s
+
+#include "textflag.h"
+
+#ifdef GOARCH_ppc64
+#define JMP BR
+#endif
+#ifdef GOARCH_ppc64le
+#define JMP BR
+#endif
+
+TEXT ·memclr(SB),NOSPLIT,$0-16
+	JMP runtime·memclr(SB)