diff -r 748ec5531811 -r 336bee5c2d35 textrendering/texthandling/stext/TXTGLOBL.CPP
--- a/textrendering/texthandling/stext/TXTGLOBL.CPP	Tue Aug 31 17:01:26 2010 +0300
+++ b/textrendering/texthandling/stext/TXTGLOBL.CPP	Wed Sep 01 12:39:40 2010 +0100
@@ -24,11 +24,6 @@
 #include "TXTGLOBL.H"
 
 #include "TXTSTD.H"
-#include "OstTraceDefinitions.h"
-#ifdef OST_TRACE_COMPILER_IN_USE
-#include "TXTGLOBLTraces.h"
-#endif
-
 
 /**
 @internalAll
@@ -61,15 +56,7 @@
 Default is EDefaultTextGranularity bytes (=256). 
 @return Pointer to the global text object. */
 	{
-	if (aGlobalParaLayer==NULL)
-	    {
-	    OstTrace0( TRACE_FATAL, CGLOBALTEXT_NEWL, "ENullFormatLayerHandle" );
-	    }
 	__ASSERT_ALWAYS(aGlobalParaLayer!=NULL,Panic(ENullFormatLayerHandle));
-	if (aGlobalCharLayer==NULL)
-	    {
-	    OstTrace0( TRACE_FATAL, DUP1_CGLOBALTEXT_NEWL, "ENullFormatLayerHandle" );
-	    }
 	__ASSERT_ALWAYS(aGlobalCharLayer!=NULL,Panic(ENullFormatLayerHandle));
 
 	CGlobalText* self=new(ELeave) CGlobalText(aGlobalParaLayer,aGlobalCharLayer);
@@ -87,15 +74,7 @@
 restored from the specified read-stream.  The global text object *uses* (does 
 not own) the supplied global format layers.*/
 	{
-	if (aGlobalParaLayer==NULL)
-	    {
-	    OstTrace0( TRACE_FATAL, DUP2_CGLOBALTEXT_NEWL, "ENullFormatLayerHandle" );
-	    }
 	__ASSERT_ALWAYS(aGlobalParaLayer!=NULL,Panic(ENullFormatLayerHandle));
-	if (aGlobalCharLayer==NULL)
-	    {
-	    OstTrace0( TRACE_FATAL, DUP3_CGLOBALTEXT_NEWL, "ENullFormatLayerHandle" );
-	    }
 	__ASSERT_ALWAYS(aGlobalCharLayer!=NULL,Panic(ENullFormatLayerHandle));
 
 	CGlobalText* self=new(ELeave) CGlobalText(aGlobalParaLayer,aGlobalCharLayer);
@@ -256,10 +235,6 @@
 formatting. 
 @param aStartPos The start position for the view. */
 	{
-	if (aStartPos<0 || aStartPos>DocumentLength())
-	    {
-	    OstTrace0( TRACE_FATAL, CGLOBALTEXT_GETCHARS, "ECharPosBeyondDocument" );
-	    }
 	__ASSERT_ALWAYS(aStartPos>=0 && aStartPos<=DocumentLength(),Panic(ECharPosBeyondDocument));
 
 	aView.Set(Read(aStartPos));