diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ChangeLog b/ld/testsuite/ChangeLog
index b35eb83144..c2ed134f24 100644
--- a/ld/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2015-04-15  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+	* ld-gc/pr18223.d: xfail tic6x.
+
 2015-04-14  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
 
 	PR ld/pr17709
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-gc/pr18223.d b/ld/testsuite/ld-gc/pr18223.d
index 9fd1912ebc..21b7c53351 100644
--- a/ld/testsuite/ld-gc/pr18223.d
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-gc/pr18223.d
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #name: --gc-sections with .text._init
 #ld: --gc-sections -shared
 #nm: -n
+#xfail: tic6x-*-*
 
 #...
 [0-9a-f]+ t +_init