diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c59a1acec..fa124de7d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-2018-01-27  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
+2018-02-05  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
+
+	* Source/NSPortCoder.m: Remove redundant (always true) conditional.
+
+2018-02-04  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
 
 	* Source/GSFileHandle.m: keep checker happy by usingn return value of
 	setsockopt.
@@ -9,7 +13,7 @@
 	* Source/NSRunLoop.m: suppress warning using cast.
 	* Source/NSTimeZone.m: check that time zone hour is in range 0 to 23
 
-2018-01-26  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
+2018-02-03  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
 
 	* Source/GSFTPURLHandle.m: change memcpy to memmove to avoid possible
 	problems with overlapping source and destination areas.
diff --git a/Source/NSPortCoder.m b/Source/NSPortCoder.m
index a112344b4..423ef4501 100644
--- a/Source/NSPortCoder.m
+++ b/Source/NSPortCoder.m
@@ -529,12 +529,9 @@ static unsigned	encodingVersion;
       (*_dTagImp)(_src, dTagSel, &ainfo, 0, &_cursor);
       if (info != (ainfo & _GSC_MASK))
         {
-	  if (info != _GSC_ID || (ainfo & _GSC_MASK) != _GSC_CID)
-	    {
-	      [NSException raise: NSInternalInconsistencyException
-			  format: @"expected %s and got %s",
-			    typeToName2(info), typeToName2(ainfo)];
-	    }
+          [NSException raise: NSInternalInconsistencyException
+                      format: @"expected %s and got %s",
+                        typeToName2(info), typeToName2(ainfo)];
         }
 
       for (i = 0; i < count; i++)