diff --git a/ltdl.c b/ltdl.c
index be6ce43..9b4dccb 100644
--- a/ltdl.c
+++ b/ltdl.c
@@ -459,35 +459,6 @@ strrchr(str, ch)
 # endif
 #endif
 
-/* NOTE:  Neither bcopy nor the memcpy implementation below can
-          reliably handle copying in overlapping areas of memory, so
-          do not rely on this behavior when invoking memcpy later.  */
-#if ! HAVE_MEMCPY
-
-#  if HAVE_BCOPY
-#    define memcpy(dest, src, size)	bcopy (src, dest, size)
-#  else
-#    define memcpy rpl_memcpy
-
-static inline char *
-memcpy (dest, src, size)
-     char *dest;
-     const char *src;
-     size_t size;
-{
-  size_t i = 0;
-
-  for (i = 0; i < size; ++i)
-    {
-      dest[i] = src[i];
-    }
-
-  return dest;
-}
-
-#  endif
-#endif
-
 /* According to Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br>,
     ``realloc is not entirely portable''
    In any case we want to use the allocator supplied by the user without