diff --git a/examples/README.txt b/examples/README.txt
index de4c75926..fa6ba3e95 100644
--- a/examples/README.txt
+++ b/examples/README.txt
@@ -540,8 +540,6 @@ examples/helloxx
 
     CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS -- Build the helloxx example as a
       "built-in"  that can be executed from the NSH command line.
-    CONFIG_EXAMPLES_HELLOXX_NOSTACKCONST - Set if the system does not
-      support construction of objects on the stack.
 
   Also needed:
 
diff --git a/examples/helloxx/helloxx_main.cxx b/examples/helloxx/helloxx_main.cxx
index 2edae8181..18293838e 100644
--- a/examples/helloxx/helloxx_main.cxx
+++ b/examples/helloxx/helloxx_main.cxx
@@ -128,12 +128,10 @@ extern "C"
 
     // Exercise an C++ object instantiated on the stack
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_EXAMPLES_HELLOXX_NOSTACKCONST
     CHelloWorld HelloWorld;
 
     printf("helloxx_main: Saying hello from the instance constructed on the stack\n");
     HelloWorld.HelloWorld();
-#endif
 
     // Exercise an statically constructed C++ object