diff --git a/Include/pymacconfig.h b/Include/pymacconfig.h
index c4da72205eb..813a617cab1 100644
--- a/Include/pymacconfig.h
+++ b/Include/pymacconfig.h
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@
 # undef DOUBLE_IS_ARM_MIXED_ENDIAN_IEEE754
 # undef DOUBLE_IS_BIG_ENDIAN_IEEE754
 # undef DOUBLE_IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN_IEEE754
-/* we don't ever need to play with the x87 control word on OS X/Intel, so just
-   pretend that we can't, to avoid problems on Intel+PPC builds */
 # undef HAVE_GCC_ASM_FOR_X87
 
 #    undef VA_LIST_IS_ARRAY
@@ -82,6 +80,10 @@
 #define DOUBLE_IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN_IEEE754
 #endif /* __BIG_ENDIAN */
 
+#ifdef __i386__
+# define HAVE_GCC_ASM_FOR_X87
+#endif
+
 	/* 
 	 * The definition in pyconfig.h is only valid on the OS release
 	 * where configure ran on and not necessarily for all systems where