diff --git a/util/coding.cc b/util/coding.cc
index 21e3186..c37b24a 100644
--- a/util/coding.cc
+++ b/util/coding.cc
@@ -169,16 +169,6 @@ bool GetVarint64(Slice* input, uint64_t* value) {
   }
 }
 
-const char* GetLengthPrefixedSlice(const char* p, const char* limit,
-                                   Slice* result) {
-  uint32_t len;
-  p = GetVarint32Ptr(p, limit, &len);
-  if (p == NULL) return NULL;
-  if (p + len > limit) return NULL;
-  *result = Slice(p, len);
-  return p + len;
-}
-
 bool GetLengthPrefixedSlice(Slice* input, Slice* result) {
   uint32_t len;
   if (GetVarint32(input, &len) &&
diff --git a/util/coding.h b/util/coding.h
index 3993c4a..8582d90 100644
--- a/util/coding.h
+++ b/util/coding.h
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ extern bool GetLengthPrefixedSlice(Slice* input, Slice* result);
 // in *v and return a pointer just past the parsed value, or return
 // NULL on error.  These routines only look at bytes in the range
 // [p..limit-1]
-extern const char* GetVarint32Ptr(const char* p,const char* limit, uint32_t* v);
-extern const char* GetVarint64Ptr(const char* p,const char* limit, uint64_t* v);
+extern const char* GetVarint32Ptr(const char* p, const char* limit, uint32_t* v);
+extern const char* GetVarint64Ptr(const char* p, const char* limit, uint64_t* v);
 
 // Returns the length of the varint32 or varint64 encoding of "v"
 extern int VarintLength(uint64_t v);