diff --git a/AMDiS/src/Initfile.cc b/AMDiS/src/Initfile.cc
index ecbc7c84a65c5e25520dae7b15657496fae55697..9f7127824a4f343e52fa9cb4cccc9d7919db01b1 100644
--- a/AMDiS/src/Initfile.cc
+++ b/AMDiS/src/Initfile.cc
@@ -85,11 +85,9 @@ namespace AMDiS {
   /// Fill an initfile from an input stream
   void Initfile::read(istream& in) 
   {
-    const unsigned line_length = 512;
-    //char swap[line_length];
+    //const unsigned line_length = 512;
     std::string swap;
     std::getline(in, swap);
-    //in.getline(swap, line_length);
     while (in.good() || in.gcount() > 0) {
       std::string whitespaces = " \t\r\f\n";
       std::string delimiter = "\r\n";
@@ -149,7 +147,6 @@ namespace AMDiS {
         read(fn, forceRead);
       }
 
-      //in.getline(swap, line_length);
       getline(in, swap);
     }
   }