diff --git a/include/llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h b/include/llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h
index d01cf32f402..0d9d0d12e86 100644
--- a/include/llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h
+++ b/include/llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h
@@ -23,30 +23,6 @@
 #include <iterator>
 #include <memory>
 
-#ifdef _MSC_VER
-namespace std {
-#if _MSC_VER <= 1310
-  // Work around flawed VC++ implementation of std::uninitialized_copy.  Define
-  // additional overloads so that elements with pointer types are recognized as
-  // scalars and not objects, causing bizarre type conversion errors.
-  template<class T1, class T2>
-  inline _Scalar_ptr_iterator_tag _Ptr_cat(T1 **, T2 **) {
-    _Scalar_ptr_iterator_tag _Cat;
-    return _Cat;
-  }
-
-  template<class T1, class T2>
-  inline _Scalar_ptr_iterator_tag _Ptr_cat(T1* const *, T2 **) {
-    _Scalar_ptr_iterator_tag _Cat;
-    return _Cat;
-  }
-#else
-// FIXME: It is not clear if the problem is fixed in VS 2005.  What is clear
-// is that the above hack won't work if it wasn't fixed.
-#endif
-}
-#endif
-
 namespace llvm {
 
 /// SmallVectorBase - This is all the non-templated stuff common to all