--- a/src/jdk.internal.vm.compiler/share/classes/org.graalvm.compiler.hotspot.amd64/src/org/graalvm/compiler/hotspot/amd64/AMD64HotSpotRestoreRbpOp.java	Thu Nov 14 11:16:14 2019 -0800
+++ b/src/jdk.internal.vm.compiler/share/classes/org.graalvm.compiler.hotspot.amd64/src/org/graalvm/compiler/hotspot/amd64/AMD64HotSpotRestoreRbpOp.java	Thu Nov 14 12:21:00 2019 -0800
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2015, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -24,20 +24,9 @@
 
 package org.graalvm.compiler.hotspot.amd64;
 
-import org.graalvm.compiler.core.common.LIRKind;
-import org.graalvm.compiler.lir.Variable;
-
-import jdk.vm.ci.amd64.AMD64Kind;
 import jdk.vm.ci.meta.AllocatableValue;
 
 public interface AMD64HotSpotRestoreRbpOp {
 
-    /**
-     * The type of location (i.e., stack or register) in which RBP is saved is not known until
-     * initial LIR generation is finished. Until then, we use a placeholder variable so that LIR
-     * verification is successful.
-     */
-    Variable PLACEHOLDER = new Variable(LIRKind.value(AMD64Kind.QWORD), Integer.MAX_VALUE);
-
     void setSavedRbp(AllocatableValue value);
 }