diff --git a/wp-includes/functions.php b/wp-includes/functions.php
index 2616a4530a..e84c075333 100644
--- a/wp-includes/functions.php
+++ b/wp-includes/functions.php
@@ -1,17 +1,13 @@
 <?php
 
+require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/functions-compat.php');
+
 if (!function_exists('_')) {
 	function _($string) {
 		return $string;
 	}
 }
 
-if (!function_exists('floatval')) {
-	function floatval($string) {
-		return ((float) $string);
-	}
-}
-
 function get_profile($field, $user = false) {
 	global $wpdb;
 	if (!$user)
diff --git a/xmlrpc.php b/xmlrpc.php
index bc9da23212..45cd410c2d 100644
--- a/xmlrpc.php
+++ b/xmlrpc.php
@@ -35,18 +35,6 @@ function starify($string) {
 logIO("I", $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA);
 
 
-function printr($var, $do_not_echo = false) {
-	// from php.net/print_r user contributed notes 
-	ob_start();
-	print_r($var);
-	$code =  htmlentities(ob_get_contents());
-	ob_clean();
-	if (!$do_not_echo) {
-	  echo "<pre>$code</pre>";
-	}
-	return $code;
-}
-
 function mkdir_p($target) {
 	// from php.net/mkdir user contributed notes 
 	if (file_exists($target)) {