From da20bc2ef1215e1cc3fb10f203d801ea8b6a0e9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Kronbichler <kronbichler@lnm.mw.tum.de>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 16:22:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Delete nonsensical assertion.

---
 source/base/utilities.cc | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/source/base/utilities.cc b/source/base/utilities.cc
index 50551b4b8e..579a725049 100644
--- a/source/base/utilities.cc
+++ b/source/base/utilities.cc
@@ -700,13 +700,8 @@ namespace Utilities
 
     void destroy_communicator (Epetra_Comm &communicator)
     {
-      Assert (&communicator != 0, ExcInternalError());
-
-      // save the communicator, reset
-      // the map, and delete the
-      // communicator if this whole
-      // thing was created as an MPI
-      // communicator
+      // save the communicator, reset the map, and delete the communicator if
+      // this whole thing was created as an MPI communicator
 #ifdef DEAL_II_WITH_MPI
       Epetra_MpiComm
       *mpi_comm = dynamic_cast<Epetra_MpiComm *>(&communicator);
-- 
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