diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index 56f561a172a..583779e8652 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -553,7 +553,6 @@ libbitcoin_util_a_SOURCES = \
   support/lockedpool.cpp \
   chainparamsbase.cpp \
   clientversion.cpp \
-  compat/glibc_sanity.cpp \
   compat/glibcxx_sanity.cpp \
   compat/strnlen.cpp \
   fs.cpp \
diff --git a/src/compat/glibc_compat.cpp b/src/compat/glibc_compat.cpp
index 8a51f310f7a..ff581d4a9e1 100644
--- a/src/compat/glibc_compat.cpp
+++ b/src/compat/glibc_compat.cpp
@@ -9,13 +9,6 @@
 #include <cstddef>
 #include <cstdint>
 
-// Prior to GLIBC_2.14, memcpy was aliased to memmove.
-extern "C" void* memmove(void* a, const void* b, size_t c);
-extern "C" void* memcpy(void* a, const void* b, size_t c)
-{
-    return memmove(a, b, c);
-}
-
 #if defined(__i386__) || defined(__arm__)
 
 extern "C" int64_t __udivmoddi4(uint64_t u, uint64_t v, uint64_t* rp);
diff --git a/src/compat/glibc_sanity.cpp b/src/compat/glibc_sanity.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 06d0dd6fbab..00000000000
--- a/src/compat/glibc_sanity.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2009-2020 The Bitcoin Core developers
-// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
-// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
-
-#if defined(HAVE_CONFIG_H)
-#include <config/bitcoin-config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include <cstddef>
-
-extern "C" void* memcpy(void* a, const void* b, size_t c);
-void* memcpy_int(void* a, const void* b, size_t c)
-{
-    return memcpy(a, b, c);
-}
-
-namespace
-{
-// trigger: Use the memcpy_int wrapper which calls our internal memcpy.
-//   A direct call to memcpy may be optimized away by the compiler.
-// test: Fill an array with a sequence of integers. memcpy to a new empty array.
-//   Verify that the arrays are equal. Use an odd size to decrease the odds of
-//   the call being optimized away.
-template <unsigned int T>
-bool sanity_test_memcpy()
-{
-    unsigned int memcpy_test[T];
-    unsigned int memcpy_verify[T] = {};
-    for (unsigned int i = 0; i != T; ++i)
-        memcpy_test[i] = i;
-
-    memcpy_int(memcpy_verify, memcpy_test, sizeof(memcpy_test));
-
-    for (unsigned int i = 0; i != T; ++i) {
-        if (memcpy_verify[i] != i)
-            return false;
-    }
-    return true;
-}
-} // namespace
-
-bool glibc_sanity_test()
-{
-    return sanity_test_memcpy<1025>();
-}
diff --git a/src/compat/sanity.h b/src/compat/sanity.h
index 909c4f6da82..8efa4161026 100644
--- a/src/compat/sanity.h
+++ b/src/compat/sanity.h
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 #ifndef BITCOIN_COMPAT_SANITY_H
 #define BITCOIN_COMPAT_SANITY_H
 
-bool glibc_sanity_test();
 bool glibcxx_sanity_test();
 
 #endif // BITCOIN_COMPAT_SANITY_H
diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 8aa80eaccaa..dea3f42aa2d 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ static bool InitSanityCheck()
         return InitError(Untranslated("Elliptic curve cryptography sanity check failure. Aborting."));
     }
 
-    if (!glibc_sanity_test() || !glibcxx_sanity_test())
+    if (!glibcxx_sanity_test())
         return false;
 
     if (!Random_SanityCheck()) {
diff --git a/src/test/sanity_tests.cpp b/src/test/sanity_tests.cpp
index 3e4b963fe36..496292875da 100644
--- a/src/test/sanity_tests.cpp
+++ b/src/test/sanity_tests.cpp
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE(sanity_tests, BasicTestingSetup)
 
 BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(basic_sanity)
 {
-  BOOST_CHECK_MESSAGE(glibc_sanity_test() == true, "libc sanity test");
   BOOST_CHECK_MESSAGE(glibcxx_sanity_test() == true, "stdlib sanity test");
   BOOST_CHECK_MESSAGE(ECC_InitSanityCheck() == true, "secp256k1 sanity test");
   BOOST_CHECK_MESSAGE(ChronoSanityCheck() == true, "chrono epoch test");