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From: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 23:45:03 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] assert: remove unneeded condition
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PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11314
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
---
 lib/assert.js | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/assert.js b/lib/assert.js
index c08f269864..f18cc45fc3 100644
--- a/lib/assert.js
+++ b/lib/assert.js
@@ -291,7 +291,8 @@ assert.notStrictEqual = function notStrictEqual(actual, expected, message) {
 };
 
 function expectedException(actual, expected) {
-  if (!actual || !expected) {
+  // actual is guaranteed to be an Error object, but we need to check expected.
+  if (!expected) {
     return false;
   }