diff --git a/newlib/configure.host b/newlib/configure.host
index ba2d8c6c7..fb3362ba1 100644
--- a/newlib/configure.host
+++ b/newlib/configure.host
@@ -608,8 +608,6 @@ case "${host}" in
 	newlib_cflags="${newlib_cflags} -DCLOCK_PROVIDED -DMALLOC_PROVIDED -DEXIT_PROVIDED -DSIGNAL_PROVIDED -DREENTRANT_SYSCALLS_PROVIDED -DHAVE_NANOSLEEP -DHAVE_BLKSIZE -DHAVE_FCNTL -DHAVE_ASSERT_FUNC"
         # turn off unsupported items in posix directory 
 	newlib_cflags="${newlib_cflags} -D_NO_GETLOGIN -D_NO_GETPWENT -D_NO_GETUT -D_NO_GETPASS -D_NO_SIGSET -D_NO_WORDEXP -D_NO_POPEN -D_NO_POSIX_SPAWN"
-        # turn off using cli/sti in i386 setjmp/longjmp
-	newlib_cflags="${newlib_cflags} -D_I386MACH_ALLOW_HW_INTERRUPTS"
 	;;
 # VxWorks supplies its own version of malloc, and the newlib one
 # doesn't work because VxWorks does not have sbrk.