diff --git a/compiler/sparc/parms.lisp b/compiler/sparc/parms.lisp
index 2595e54f8ad0b9ae39fcf96ea01be39d887f6fe1..9c3605dcfdfd863d3ca8bf6d3a3c0fd0f696a300 100644
--- a/compiler/sparc/parms.lisp
+++ b/compiler/sparc/parms.lisp
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ;;; Carnegie Mellon University, and has been placed in the public domain.
 ;;;
 (ext:file-comment
-  "$Header: /Volumes/share2/src/cmucl/cvs2git/cvsroot/src/compiler/sparc/parms.lisp,v 1.47 2003/10/24 02:57:00 toy Exp $")
+  "$Header: /Volumes/share2/src/cmucl/cvs2git/cvsroot/src/compiler/sparc/parms.lisp,v 1.48 2003/10/27 18:33:10 toy Exp $")
 ;;;
 ;;; **********************************************************************
 ;;;
@@ -103,9 +103,6 @@
   "Exclusive upper bound on the value of the low tag bits from a
   pointer.")
 
-(defconstant lowtag-bits 3
-  "Number of bits at the low end of a pointer used for type information.")
-
 (defconstant fixnum-tag-bits (1- lowtag-bits)
   "Number of tag bits used for a fixnum")