[svn-r17314] Description:

	Bring r17313 from trunk to 1.8 branch:
	Bring back various minor code cleanups from the file free space branch

Tested on:
       FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode
       FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
       Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
                               in debug mode
       Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/Intel compilers w/default API=1.6.x,
                               w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode
       Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
                               w/szip filter, in production mode
       Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
                               in production mode
       Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
       Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
       Mac OS X/32 10.5.8 (amazon) in debug mode
       Mac OS X/32 10.5.8 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
                               in production mode

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/H5FD.c b/src/H5FD.c
index 4c316d1..f3b96d2 100644
--- a/src/H5FD.c
+++ b/src/H5FD.c
@@ -1717,7 +1717,6 @@ H5FD_get_fs_type_map(const H5FD_t *file, H5FD_mem_t *type_map)
     FUNC_ENTER_NOAPI(H5FD_get_fs_type_map, FAIL)
 
     /* Sanity check */
-    HDassert(file);
     HDassert(file && file->cls);
     HDassert(type_map);