Eliminate superfluous test.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/md5sum.c b/md5sum.c
index e4f52075d..ac3462334 100644
--- a/md5sum.c
+++ b/md5sum.c
@@ -819,8 +819,6 @@ int md5sum_main(int argc,
        if (string == NULL)
          string = (char **) xmalloc ((argc - 1) * sizeof (char *));
 
-       if (optarg == NULL)
-         optarg = "";
        string[n_strings++] = optarg;
        break;
      }