diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 140c6ae98f5..f99254f235f 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-12-03  Jack Howarth  <howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu>
+
+	* g++.old-deja/g++.eh/badalloc1.C: Omit XFAIL on obsolete Darwin.
+
 2008-12-03  Jason Merrill  <jason@redhat.com>
 
 	PR c++/38256
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/g++.eh/badalloc1.C b/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/g++.eh/badalloc1.C
index b2e7f62b9b3..15f1aaeeaa8 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/g++.eh/badalloc1.C
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/g++.eh/badalloc1.C
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // __cxa_allocate_exception's emergency buffer mutex will
 // itself call malloc(), and will fail if there is no more
 // memory available.
-// { dg-do run { xfail { { xstormy16-*-* *-*-darwin[1-7]* } || vxworks_rtp } } }
+// { dg-do run { xfail { xstormy16-*-* || vxworks_rtp } } }
 // Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 // Contributed by Nathan Sidwell 6 June 2000 <nathan@codesourcery.com>