diff --git a/gas/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gas/testsuite/ChangeLog
index e81a297291..b711098402 100644
--- a/gas/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 
 2005-03-03  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
+	* gas/macros/macros.exp (run_list_test): Also expect the msp430
+	port to fail the strings test because it defines
+	ONLY_STANDARD_ESCAPES.
+
 	* gas/arm/arch6zk.s: Add three nop instructions in order to pad
 	the .text section out to a 32-byte boundary as will automatically
 	be done by the arm-aout target.
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/macros/macros.exp b/gas/testsuite/gas/macros/macros.exp
index 8b99de1186..d56c51f352 100644
--- a/gas/testsuite/gas/macros/macros.exp
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/macros/macros.exp
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ case $target_triplet in {
 
 if { ![istarget hppa*-*-*] || [istarget *-*-linux*] } {
     # FIXME: Due to macro mishandling of ONLY_STANDARD_ESCAPES.
-    setup_xfail "avr-*" "cris-*" "crisv32-*"
+    setup_xfail "avr-*" "cris-*" "crisv32-*" "msp430-*"
 
     # These fail due to NO_STRING_ESCAPES
     setup_xfail "powerpc*-*-aix*" "powerpc*-*-beos*" "powerpc*-*-macos*"