diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix
index 0b8e5f803b35..1e339ee3e629 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   # cygwin: FAIL: multibyte-white-space
   # freebsd: FAIL mb-non-UTF8-performance
-  doCheck = !stdenv.isCygwin && !stdenv.isFreeBSD;
+  # x86_64-darwin: fails 'stack-overflow' tests on Rosetta 2 emulator
+  doCheck = !stdenv.isCygwin && !stdenv.isFreeBSD && !(stdenv.isDarwin && stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64);
 
   # On macOS, force use of mkdir -p, since Grep's fallback
   # (./install-sh) is broken.