diff --git a/src/avx2-64bit-qsort.hpp b/src/avx2-64bit-qsort.hpp
index 764bdcf4..e5f53808 100644
--- a/src/avx2-64bit-qsort.hpp
+++ b/src/avx2-64bit-qsort.hpp
@@ -379,6 +379,19 @@ struct avx2_vector<uint64_t> {
         return v;
     }
 };
+
+/*
+ * workaround on 64-bit macOS which defines size_t as unsigned long and defines
+ * uint64_t as unsigned long long, both of which are 8 bytes
+ */
+#if defined(__APPLE__) && defined(__x86_64__)
+static_assert(sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(uint64_t),
+              "Size of size_t and uint64_t are not the same");
+template <>
+struct avx2_vector<size_t> : public avx2_vector<uint64_t> {
+};
+#endif
+
 template <>
 struct avx2_vector<double> {
     using type_t = double;