diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
index a94c583..18d6c35 100644
--- a/exec.c
+++ b/exec.c
@@ -2759,14 +2759,12 @@
 }
 #endif
 
-#if !defined(CONFIG_USER_ONLY)
-
 /*
  * A helper function for the _utterly broken_ virtio device model to find out if
  * it's running on a big endian machine. Don't do this at home kids!
  */
-bool virtio_is_big_endian(void);
-bool virtio_is_big_endian(void)
+bool target_words_bigendian(void);
+bool target_words_bigendian(void)
 {
 #if defined(TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN)
     return true;
@@ -2775,8 +2773,6 @@
 #endif
 }
 
-#endif
-
 #ifndef CONFIG_USER_ONLY
 bool cpu_physical_memory_is_io(hwaddr phys_addr)
 {