--- a/hotspot/src/cpu/x86/vm/assembler_x86.hpp	Mon Nov 26 15:11:55 2012 +0100
+++ b/hotspot/src/cpu/x86/vm/assembler_x86.hpp	Thu Dec 06 09:57:41 2012 -0800
@@ -437,10 +437,6 @@
 
 const int FPUStateSizeInWords = NOT_LP64(27) LP64_ONLY( 512 / wordSize);
 
-#ifdef ASSERT
-inline bool AbstractAssembler::pd_check_instruction_mark() { return true; }
-#endif
-
 // The Intel x86/Amd64 Assembler: Pure assembler doing NO optimizations on the instruction
 // level (e.g. mov rax, 0 is not translated into xor rax, rax!); i.e., what you write
 // is what you get. The Assembler is generating code into a CodeBuffer.