diff --git a/go/loader/stdlib_test.go b/go/loader/stdlib_test.go
index 9b8fd524aa..b55aa8ffa2 100644
--- a/go/loader/stdlib_test.go
+++ b/go/loader/stdlib_test.go
@@ -79,17 +79,15 @@ func TestStdlib(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	// Check that Test functions for io/ioutil, regexp and
-	// compress/bzip2 are all simultaneously present.
-	// (The apparent cycle formed when augmenting all three of
-	// these packages by their tests was the original motivation
-	// for reporting b/7114.)
+	// Check that Test functions for regexp and compress/bzip2 are
+	// simultaneously present. The apparent cycle formed when augmenting
+	// these packages by their tests (together with io/ioutil's test, which is now
+	// an xtest) was the original motivation or reporting golang.org/issue/7114.
 	//
 	// compress/bzip2.TestBitReader in bzip2_test.go    imports io/ioutil
-	// io/ioutil.TestTempFile       in tempfile_test.go imports regexp
+	// io/ioutil.TestTempFile       in tempfile_test.go imports regexp (no longer exists)
 	// regexp.TestRE2Search         in exec_test.go     imports compress/bzip2
 	for _, test := range []struct{ pkg, fn string }{
-		{"io/ioutil", "TestTempFile"},
 		{"regexp", "TestRE2Search"},
 		{"compress/bzip2", "TestBitReader"},
 	} {