diff --git a/zconf.h b/zconf.h
index fb76ffe31..9baa9527f 100644
--- a/zconf.h
+++ b/zconf.h
@@ -300,14 +300,6 @@
 #  endif
 #endif
 
-#ifndef Z_ARG /* function prototypes for stdarg */
-#  if defined(STDC) || defined(Z_HAVE_STDARG_H)
-#    define Z_ARG(args)  args
-#  else
-#    define Z_ARG(args)  ()
-#  endif
-#endif
-
 /* The following definitions for FAR are needed only for MSDOS mixed
  * model programming (small or medium model with some far allocations).
  * This was tested only with MSC; for other MSDOS compilers you may have
diff --git a/zconf.h.cmakein b/zconf.h.cmakein
index 310c43928..51558cef9 100644
--- a/zconf.h.cmakein
+++ b/zconf.h.cmakein
@@ -302,14 +302,6 @@
 #  endif
 #endif
 
-#ifndef Z_ARG /* function prototypes for stdarg */
-#  if defined(STDC) || defined(Z_HAVE_STDARG_H)
-#    define Z_ARG(args)  args
-#  else
-#    define Z_ARG(args)  ()
-#  endif
-#endif
-
 /* The following definitions for FAR are needed only for MSDOS mixed
  * model programming (small or medium model with some far allocations).
  * This was tested only with MSC; for other MSDOS compilers you may have
diff --git a/zconf.h.in b/zconf.h.in
index fb76ffe31..9baa9527f 100644
--- a/zconf.h.in
+++ b/zconf.h.in
@@ -300,14 +300,6 @@
 #  endif
 #endif
 
-#ifndef Z_ARG /* function prototypes for stdarg */
-#  if defined(STDC) || defined(Z_HAVE_STDARG_H)
-#    define Z_ARG(args)  args
-#  else
-#    define Z_ARG(args)  ()
-#  endif
-#endif
-
 /* The following definitions for FAR are needed only for MSDOS mixed
  * model programming (small or medium model with some far allocations).
  * This was tested only with MSC; for other MSDOS compilers you may have