diff --git a/src/libsyntax/parse/mod.rs b/src/libsyntax/parse/mod.rs
index 7b39db16ac2..1483691a1ea 100644
--- a/src/libsyntax/parse/mod.rs
+++ b/src/libsyntax/parse/mod.rs
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ pub mod attr;
 
 pub mod common;
 pub mod classify;
-pub mod obsolete;
 
 /// Info about a parsing session.
 pub struct ParseSess {
diff --git a/src/libsyntax/parse/obsolete.rs b/src/libsyntax/parse/obsolete.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 49a697edf41..00000000000
--- a/src/libsyntax/parse/obsolete.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2012-2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
-// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
-// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
-// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
-// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
-// except according to those terms.
-
-//! Support for parsing unsupported, old syntaxes, for the purpose of reporting errors. Parsing of
-//! these syntaxes is tested by compile-test/obsolete-syntax.rs.
-//!
-//! Obsolete syntax that becomes too hard to parse can be removed.
-
-use syntax_pos::Span;
-use parse::parser;
-
-/// The specific types of unsupported syntax
-#[derive(Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
-pub enum ObsoleteSyntax {
-    // Nothing here at the moment
-}
-
-pub trait ParserObsoleteMethods {
-    /// Reports an obsolete syntax non-fatal error.
-    fn obsolete(&mut self, sp: Span, kind: ObsoleteSyntax);
-    fn report(&mut self,
-              sp: Span,
-              kind: ObsoleteSyntax,
-              kind_str: &str,
-              desc: &str,
-              error: bool);
-}
-
-impl<'a> ParserObsoleteMethods for parser::Parser<'a> {
-    /// Reports an obsolete syntax non-fatal error.
-    #[allow(unused_variables)]
-    #[allow(unreachable_code)]
-    fn obsolete(&mut self, sp: Span, kind: ObsoleteSyntax) {
-        let (kind_str, desc, error) = match kind {
-            // Nothing here at the moment
-        };
-
-        self.report(sp, kind, kind_str, desc, error);
-    }
-
-    fn report(&mut self,
-              sp: Span,
-              kind: ObsoleteSyntax,
-              kind_str: &str,
-              desc: &str,
-              error: bool) {
-        let mut err = if error {
-            self.diagnostic().struct_span_err(sp, &format!("obsolete syntax: {}", kind_str))
-        } else {
-            self.diagnostic().struct_span_warn(sp, &format!("obsolete syntax: {}", kind_str))
-        };
-
-        if !self.obsolete_set.contains(&kind) &&
-            (error || self.sess.span_diagnostic.flags.can_emit_warnings) {
-            err.note(desc);
-            self.obsolete_set.insert(kind);
-        }
-        err.emit();
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs b/src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs
index 98e2528d30f..b4b21285d3b 100644
--- a/src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs
+++ b/src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ use parse::{self, classify, token};
 use parse::common::SeqSep;
 use parse::lexer::TokenAndSpan;
 use parse::lexer::comments::{doc_comment_style, strip_doc_comment_decoration};
-use parse::obsolete::ObsoleteSyntax;
 use parse::{new_sub_parser_from_file, ParseSess, Directory, DirectoryOwnership};
 use util::parser::{AssocOp, Fixity};
 use print::pprust;
@@ -59,7 +58,6 @@ use symbol::{Symbol, keywords};
 use util::ThinVec;
 
 use std::cmp;
-use std::collections::HashSet;
 use std::mem;
 use std::path::{self, Path, PathBuf};
 use std::slice;
@@ -229,9 +227,6 @@ pub struct Parser<'a> {
     /// the previous token kind
     prev_token_kind: PrevTokenKind,
     pub restrictions: Restrictions,
-    /// The set of seen errors about obsolete syntax. Used to suppress
-    /// extra detail when the same error is seen twice
-    pub obsolete_set: HashSet<ObsoleteSyntax>,
     /// Used to determine the path to externally loaded source files
     pub directory: Directory,
     /// Whether to parse sub-modules in other files.
@@ -555,7 +550,6 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
             meta_var_span: None,
             prev_token_kind: PrevTokenKind::Other,
             restrictions: Restrictions::empty(),
-            obsolete_set: HashSet::new(),
             recurse_into_file_modules,
             directory: Directory {
                 path: PathBuf::new(),