diff --git a/lib/communicator/Communicator_mpit.cc b/lib/communicator/Communicator_mpit.cc
index b2fb71a6..bceea0d8 100644
--- a/lib/communicator/Communicator_mpit.cc
+++ b/lib/communicator/Communicator_mpit.cc
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ CartesianCommunicator::~CartesianCommunicator()
 {
   int MPI_is_finalised;
   MPI_Finalized(&MPI_is_finalised);
-  if (communicator && !MPI_is_finalised)
+  if (communicator && !MPI_is_finalised){
     MPI_Comm_free(&communicator);
     for(int i=0;i<  communicator_halo.size();i++){
       MPI_Comm_free(&communicator_halo[i]);
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ void CartesianCommunicator::StencilSendToRecvFromComplete(std::vector<CommsReque
 { 
   int nreq=waitall.size();
   MPI_Waitall(nreq, &waitall[0], MPI_STATUSES_IGNORE);
-};
+}
 double CartesianCommunicator::StencilSendToRecvFrom(void *xmit,
 						    int xmit_to_rank,
 						    void *recv,