diff --git a/src/qtgui/restable.cpp b/src/qtgui/restable.cpp
index 0ea206f5..597eb877 100644
--- a/src/qtgui/restable.cpp
+++ b/src/qtgui/restable.cpp
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ void RecollModel::sort(int column, Qt::SortOrder order)
         if (!stringlowercmp("date", spec.field) ||
             !stringlowercmp("datetime", spec.field))
             spec.field = "mtime";
-        spec.desc = order == Qt::AscendingOrder ? false : true;
+        spec.desc = (order != Qt::AscendingOrder);
     }
     emit sortDataChanged(spec);
 }
diff --git a/src/qtgui/spell_w.cpp b/src/qtgui/spell_w.cpp
index 63ea7b57..63ff1a98 100644
--- a/src/qtgui/spell_w.cpp
+++ b/src/qtgui/spell_w.cpp
@@ -218,8 +218,8 @@ void SpellW::doExpand()
         resTW->setItem(0, 0, new QTableWidgetItem(tr("No expansion found")));
     } else {
         int row = 0;
-
-        if (maxexpand > 0 && int(res.entries.size()) >= maxexpand) {
+        // maxexpand is static const, thus guaranteed to be >0
+        if (int(res.entries.size()) >= maxexpand) {
             resTW->setRowCount(row + 1);
             resTW->setSpan(row, 0, 1, 2);
             resTW->setItem(row++, 0,