diff --git a/lib/bindings/alloc_pages_stubs.c b/lib/bindings/alloc_pages_stubs.c
index 06756718..b657bce3 100644
--- a/lib/bindings/alloc_pages_stubs.c
+++ b/lib/bindings/alloc_pages_stubs.c
@@ -46,23 +46,7 @@ mirage_alloc_pages(value did_gc, value n_pages)
   }
   /* Explicitly zero the page before returning it */
   memset(block, 0, len);
-
-/* OCaml 4.02 introduced bigarray element type CAML_BA_CHAR,
-   which needs to be used - otherwise type t in io_page.ml
-   is different from the allocated bigarray and equality won't
-   hold.
-   Only since 4.02 there is a <caml/version.h>, thus we cannot
-   include it in order to detect the version of the OCaml runtime.
-   Instead, we use definitions which were introduced by 4.02 - and
-   cross fingers that they'll stay there in the future.
-   Once <4.02 support is removed, we should get rid of this hack.
-   -- hannes, 16th Feb 2015
- */
-#ifdef Caml_ba_kind_val
   CAMLreturn(caml_ba_alloc_dims(CAML_BA_CHAR | CAML_BA_C_LAYOUT | CAML_BA_MANAGED, 1, block, len));
-#else
-  CAMLreturn(caml_ba_alloc_dims(CAML_BA_UINT8 | CAML_BA_C_LAYOUT | CAML_BA_MANAGED, 1, block, len));
-#endif
 }
 
 CAMLprim value