diff --git a/base/glibc/gcc3.patch b/base/glibc/gcc3.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b3da06eff..000000000
--- a/base/glibc/gcc3.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-#
-# Filename: package/.../glibc/gcc3.patch
-# Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
-#
-# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
-#
-# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
-# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
-# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or 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.
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
-Older gcc (<3.4) are not able to honor the .rodata .section specification
-correctly:
-
-../sysdeps/i386/i686/memcmp.S: Assembler messages: 
-../sysdeps/i386/i686/memcmp.S:390: Error: can't resolve `.rodata'  
-
-  Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>
-
---- ./sysdeps/i386/i686/memcmp.S~	2004-04-02 01:28:37.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./sysdeps/i386/i686/memcmp.S	2004-05-22 21:27:39.000000000 +0200
-@@ -351,7 +351,6 @@
- 	popl	%esi
- 	RETURN
- 
--	.section	.rodata
- 	ALIGN (2)
- L(table_32bytes) :
- 	.long	L(0bytes) - . + 0x0