diff --git a/lib/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.cpp b/lib/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.cpp
index 19d7ce375ec..5be3aa87e0a 100644
--- a/lib/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.cpp
+++ b/lib/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.cpp
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 #include "llvm/ModuleProvider.h"
 #include "llvm/ExecutionEngine/GenericValue.h"
 #include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
-#include "llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/Debug.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/ErrorHandling.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/MutexGuard.h"
@@ -855,17 +854,6 @@ void ExecutionEngine::LoadValueFromMemory(GenericValue &Result,
                                           const Type *Ty) {
   const unsigned LoadBytes = getTargetData()->getTypeStoreSize(Ty);
 
-  if (sys::isLittleEndianHost() != getTargetData()->isLittleEndian()) {
-    // Host and target are different endian - reverse copy the stored
-    // bytes into a buffer, and load from that.
-    uint8_t *Src = (uint8_t*)Ptr;
-    
-    SmallVector<uint8_t, 20> Buf;
-    Buf.resize(LoadBytes+1);
-    std::reverse_copy(Src, Src + LoadBytes, Buf.data());
-    Ptr = (GenericValue*)Buf.data();
-  }
-
   switch (Ty->getTypeID()) {
   case Type::IntegerTyID:
     // An APInt with all words initially zero.