diff --git a/module/language/objcode.scm b/module/language/objcode.scm
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-;;; Guile Virtual Machine Object Code
-
-;; Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-;;;; This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-;;;; modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
-;;;; License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
-;;;; version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-;;;; 
-;;;; This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-;;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-;;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-;;;; Lesser General Public License for more details.
-;;;; 
-;;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
-;;;; License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
-;;;; Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
-
-;;; Code:
-
-(define-module (language objcode)
-  #:export (encode-length decode-length))
-
-
-;;;
-;;; Variable-length interface
-;;;
-
-;; NOTE: decoded in vm_fetch_length in vm.c as well.
-
-(define (encode-length len)
-  (cond ((< len 254) (u8vector len))
-	((< len (* 256 256))
-	 (u8vector 254 (quotient len 256) (modulo len 256)))
-	((< len most-positive-fixnum)
-	 (u8vector 255
-		   (quotient len (* 256 256 256))
-		   (modulo (quotient len (* 256 256)) 256)
-		   (modulo (quotient len 256) 256)
-		   (modulo len 256)))
-	(else (error "Too long code length:" len))))
-
-(define (decode-length pop)
-  (let ((x (pop)))
-    (cond ((< x 254) x)
-	  ((= x 254) (+ (ash x 8) (pop)))
-	  (else
-           (let* ((b2 (pop))
-                  (b3 (pop))
-                  (b4 (pop)))
-             (+ (ash x 24) (ash b2 16) (ash b3 8) b4))))))