1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/utf8.h b/utf8.h
index 8504207d0e..2d4877552b 100644
--- a/utf8.h
+++ b/utf8.h
@@ -364,16 +364,6 @@ Perl's extended UTF-8 means we can have start bytes up to FF.
               I8_TO_NATIVE_UTF8((translate_function(c) & UTF_CONTINUATION_MASK) \
                                  | UTF_CONTINUATION_MARK)
 
-/* This is another helper macro to avoid preprocessor issues, expanding to an
- * assert followed by a comma under DEBUGGING (hence the comma operator).  If
- * we didn't do this, we would get a comma with nothing before it when not
- * DEBUGGING */
-#ifdef DEBUGGING
-#   define __ASSERT_(statement)  assert(statement),
-#else
-#   define __ASSERT_(statement)
-#endif
-
 /* The next two macros should not be used.  They were designed to be usable as
  * the case label of a switch statement, but this doesn't work for EBCDIC.  Use
  * regen/unicode_constants.pl instead */