diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
index 0cd9e614a43..7021bae0566 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-10-22  Loren J. Rittle  <ljrittle@acm.org>
+
+	* testsuite/18_support/numeric_limits.cc (test_extrema<long double>):
+	Remove specialization for FreeBSD systems.
+
 2002-10-18  Loren J. Rittle  <ljrittle@acm.org>
 
 	* configure.target (freebsd*): Use abi_baseline_triplet.
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/18_support/numeric_limits.cc b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/18_support/numeric_limits.cc
index 7dd5a6c191e..4a1c498bb2d 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/18_support/numeric_limits.cc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/18_support/numeric_limits.cc
@@ -71,34 +71,6 @@ void test_extrema()
   VERIFY( extrema_max == limits_max );
 }
 
-#ifdef __FreeBSD__
-// This specialization allows the extra precision unmentioned in
-// system headers yet supported by long double on FreeBSD or Solaris
-// to not cause a gratuitous FAIL for the entire test.  Using this
-// technique to compare the residual against epsilon ensures that any
-// major breakage will still be detected (although obviously not as
-// tight as the exact equality check that would have been generated by
-// default).  This replacement test is allowable by the fact that C++
-// limits should match the system provided limits for C even if they
-// were wrong verses the actual FP hardware.
-template<>
-void test_extrema<long double>()
-{
-  typedef long double T;
-  bool test = true;
-  T limits_min = std::numeric_limits<T>::min();
-  T limits_max = std::numeric_limits<T>::max();
-  T extrema_min = extrema<T>::min;
-  T extrema_max = extrema<T>::max;
-  T epsilon = std::numeric_limits<T>::epsilon();
-
-  VERIFY( (extrema_min - limits_min) < epsilon );
-  VERIFY( (limits_min - extrema_min) < epsilon );
-  VERIFY( (extrema_max / limits_max) < (1 + epsilon) );
-  VERIFY( (limits_max / extrema_max) < (1 + epsilon) );
-}
-#endif
-
 template<typename T>
 void test_epsilon()
 {