diff --git a/src/modules.js b/src/modules.js
index 20202bd0e42c..65e2d3990dd5 100644
--- a/src/modules.js
+++ b/src/modules.js
@@ -8,15 +8,6 @@
 
 // Various namespace-like modules
 
-// Constructs an array ['a0', 'a1', 'a2', ..., 'a(n-1)']
-function genArgSequence(n) {
-  const args = [];
-  for (let i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
-    args.push('a' + i);
-  }
-  return args;
-}
-
 // List of symbols that were added from the library.
 globalThis.librarySymbols = [];
 
diff --git a/src/parseTools.js b/src/parseTools.js
index fa89005f0c65..eacd9cc50cc6 100644
--- a/src/parseTools.js
+++ b/src/parseTools.js
@@ -167,13 +167,6 @@ function isNiceIdent(ident, loose) {
   return /^\(?[$_]+[\w$_\d ]*\)?$/.test(ident);
 }
 
-// Simple variables or numbers, or things already quoted, do not need to be quoted
-function needsQuoting(ident) {
-  if (/^[-+]?[$_]?[\w$_\d]*$/.test(ident)) return false; // number or variable
-  if (ident[0] === '(' && ident[ident.length - 1] === ')' && ident.indexOf('(', 1) < 0) return false; // already fully quoted
-  return true;
-}
-
 globalThis.POINTER_SIZE = MEMORY64 ? 8 : 4;
 globalThis.POINTER_MAX = MEMORY64 ? 'Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER' : '0xFFFFFFFF';
 globalThis.STACK_ALIGN = 16;