diff --git a/include/semihosting/console.h b/include/semihosting/console.h
index 6994f23c82..d6c1cc58ab 100644
--- a/include/semihosting/console.h
+++ b/include/semihosting/console.h
@@ -24,19 +24,6 @@
  */
 int qemu_semihosting_console_outs(CPUArchState *env, target_ulong s);
 
-/**
- * qemu_semihosting_console_outc:
- * @env: CPUArchState
- * @s: host address of null terminated guest string
- *
- * Send single character from guest memory to the debug console. This
- * may be the remote gdb session if a softmmu guest is currently being
- * debugged.
- *
- * Returns: nothing
- */
-void qemu_semihosting_console_outc(CPUArchState *env, target_ulong c);
-
 /**
  * qemu_semihosting_console_read:
  * @cs: CPUState
diff --git a/linux-user/semihost.c b/linux-user/semihost.c
index 871edf993a..f8bc8889f3 100644
--- a/linux-user/semihost.c
+++ b/linux-user/semihost.c
@@ -33,22 +33,6 @@ int qemu_semihosting_console_outs(CPUArchState *env, target_ulong addr)
     return len;
 }
 
-void qemu_semihosting_console_outc(CPUArchState *env, target_ulong addr)
-{
-    char c;
-
-    if (get_user_u8(c, addr)) {
-        qemu_log_mask(LOG_GUEST_ERROR,
-                      "%s: passed inaccessible address " TARGET_FMT_lx,
-                      __func__, addr);
-    } else {
-        if (write(STDERR_FILENO, &c, 1) != 1) {
-            qemu_log_mask(LOG_UNIMP, "%s: unexpected write to stdout failure",
-                          __func__);
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 /*
  * For linux-user we can safely block. However as we want to return as
  * soon as a character is read we need to tweak the termio to disable
diff --git a/semihosting/console.c b/semihosting/console.c
index 955880514e..fe7ee85137 100644
--- a/semihosting/console.c
+++ b/semihosting/console.c
@@ -96,24 +96,6 @@ int qemu_semihosting_console_outs(CPUArchState *env, target_ulong addr)
     return out;
 }
 
-void qemu_semihosting_console_outc(CPUArchState *env, target_ulong addr)
-{
-    CPUState *cpu = env_cpu(env);
-    uint8_t c;
-
-    if (cpu_memory_rw_debug(cpu, addr, &c, 1, 0) == 0) {
-        if (use_gdb_syscalls()) {
-            gdb_do_syscall(semihosting_cb, "write,2,%x,%x", addr, 1);
-        } else {
-            qemu_semihosting_log_out((const char *) &c, 1);
-        }
-    } else {
-        qemu_log_mask(LOG_GUEST_ERROR,
-                      "%s: passed inaccessible address " TARGET_FMT_lx,
-                      __func__, addr);
-    }
-}
-
 #define FIFO_SIZE   1024
 
 static int console_can_read(void *opaque)