diff --git a/simgear/debug/logstream.cxx b/simgear/debug/logstream.cxx
index 28afbd26..8f6104a8 100644
--- a/simgear/debug/logstream.cxx
+++ b/simgear/debug/logstream.cxx
@@ -97,17 +97,5 @@ logstream::initGlobalLogstream()
 {
     // Force initialization of cerr.
     static std::ios_base::Init initializer;
-    // XXX Is the following still necessary?
-#ifdef __APPLE__
-    /**
-     * There appears to be a bug in the C++ runtime in Mac OS X that
-     * will crash if certain funtions are called (in this case
-     * cerr.rdbuf()) during static initialization of a class. This
-     * print statement is hack to kick the library in the pants so it
-     * won't crash when cerr.rdbuf() is first called -DW 
-     **/
-    std::cout << "Using Mac OS X hack for initializing C++ stdio..."
-              << std::endl;
-#endif
     global_logstream = new logstream(std::cerr);
 }