diff --git a/src/test/ui/feature-gates/feature-gate-nll.nll.stderr b/src/test/ui/feature-gates/feature-gate-nll.nll.stderr
deleted file mode 100644
index 81de0d14aa7d3..0000000000000
--- a/src/test/ui/feature-gates/feature-gate-nll.nll.stderr
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-error: compilation successful
-  --> $DIR/feature-gate-nll.rs:13:1
-   |
-LL | / fn main() { #![rustc_error] // rust-lang/rust#49855
-LL | |     let mut x = 33;
-LL | |
-LL | |     let p = &x;
-LL | |     x = 22; //~ ERROR cannot assign to `x` because it is borrowed [E0506]
-LL | | }
-   | |_^
-
-error: aborting due to previous error
-
diff --git a/src/test/ui/feature-gates/feature-gate-nll.rs b/src/test/ui/feature-gates/feature-gate-nll.rs
index 752b1fa821f7f..14c48fb48a09b 100644
--- a/src/test/ui/feature-gates/feature-gate-nll.rs
+++ b/src/test/ui/feature-gates/feature-gate-nll.rs
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-// Copyright 2015 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.
-#![feature(rustc_attrs)]
+// This is a test checking that if you do not opt into NLL then you
+// should not get the effects of NLL applied to the test.
+
+// Don't use 2018 edition, since that turns on NLL (migration mode).
+// edition:2015
+
+// Don't use compare-mode=nll, since that turns on NLL.
+// ignore-compare-mode-nll
+
+
 #![allow(dead_code)]
 
-fn main() { #![rustc_error] // rust-lang/rust#49855
+fn main() {
     let mut x = 33;
 
     let p = &x;