From ac2c2854795aac89ad5e488d0712a17b90f9afe3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harry Moffat <hkmoffa@sandia.gov>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 23:53:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added an AssertThrowMsg at a point which is frequently
 reached when the object hasn't been properly inialized.

---
 Cantera/src/thermo/VPStandardStateTP.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Cantera/src/thermo/VPStandardStateTP.cpp b/Cantera/src/thermo/VPStandardStateTP.cpp
index 47e641151..7e06fa07d 100644
--- a/Cantera/src/thermo/VPStandardStateTP.cpp
+++ b/Cantera/src/thermo/VPStandardStateTP.cpp
@@ -445,6 +445,8 @@ namespace Cantera {
     double Tnow = temperature();
     m_Plast_ss = m_Pcurrent;
     m_Tlast_ss = Tnow;
+    AssertThrowMsg(m_VPSS_ptr != 0, "VPStandardStateTP::_updateStandardStateThermo()",
+                   "Probably indicates that ThermoPhase object wasn't initialized correctly");
     m_VPSS_ptr->setState_TP(Tnow, m_Pcurrent);
   }