diff --git a/debug/tst-fortify-syslog.c b/debug/tst-fortify-syslog.c
index a7ddbf7c6b..2712acf689 100644
--- a/debug/tst-fortify-syslog.c
+++ b/debug/tst-fortify-syslog.c
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 #include <syslog.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
-#include <stdio.h>
 
 #include <support/check.h>
 #include <support/support.h>
@@ -46,18 +45,13 @@ handler (int sig)
     _exit (127);
 }
 
-#define FAIL()						\
-  do {							\
-      printf ("Failure on line %d\n", __LINE__);	\
-      support_record_failure ();			\
-  } while (0)
 #define CHK_FAIL_START					\
   chk_fail_ok = 1;					\
   if (! setjmp (chk_fail_buf))				\
     {
 #define CHK_FAIL_END					\
       chk_fail_ok = 0;					\
-      FAIL ();						\
+      FAIL ("not supposed to reach here");		\
     }
 
 static void
diff --git a/localedata/tst-ctype.c b/localedata/tst-ctype.c
index 9de979a2d7..a23689719c 100644
--- a/localedata/tst-ctype.c
+++ b/localedata/tst-ctype.c
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
 
+#include <support/check.h>
+
 
 static const char lower[] = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
 static const char upper[] = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
@@ -53,19 +55,11 @@ static struct classes
 #define nclasses (sizeof (classes) / sizeof (classes[0]))
 
 
-#define FAIL(str, args...) \
-  {									      \
-    printf ("      " str "\n", ##args);					      \
-    ++errors;								      \
-  }
-
-
 static int
 do_test (void)
 {
   const char *cp;
   const char *cp2;
-  int errors = 0;
   char *inpline = NULL;
   size_t inplinelen = 0;
   char *resline = NULL;
@@ -394,11 +388,8 @@ punct = %04x  alnum = %04x\n",
 	    {
 	      if (((__ctype_b[(unsigned int) *inp] & classes[n].mask) != 0)
 		  != (*resp != '0'))
-		{
-		  printf ("    is%s('%c' = '\\x%02x') %s true\n", inpline,
-			  *inp, *inp, *resp == '1' ? "not" : "is");
-		  ++errors;
-		}
+		FAIL ("    is%s('%c' = '\\x%02x') %s true\n", inpline,
+		      *inp, *inp, *resp == '1' ? "not" : "is");
 	      ++inp;
 	      ++resp;
 	    }
@@ -408,11 +399,8 @@ punct = %04x  alnum = %04x\n",
 	  while (*inp != '\0')
 	    {
 	      if (tolower (*inp) != *resp)
-		{
-		  printf ("    tolower('%c' = '\\x%02x') != '%c'\n",
-			  *inp, *inp, *resp);
-		  ++errors;
-		}
+		FAIL ("    tolower('%c' = '\\x%02x') != '%c'\n",
+		      *inp, *inp, *resp);
 	      ++inp;
 	      ++resp;
 	    }
@@ -422,11 +410,8 @@ punct = %04x  alnum = %04x\n",
 	  while (*inp != '\0')
 	    {
 	      if (toupper (*inp) != *resp)
-		{
-		  printf ("    toupper('%c' = '\\x%02x') != '%c'\n",
-			  *inp, *inp, *resp);
-		  ++errors;
-		}
+		FAIL ("    toupper('%c' = '\\x%02x') != '%c'\n",
+		      *inp, *inp, *resp);
 	      ++inp;
 	      ++resp;
 	    }
@@ -436,14 +421,7 @@ punct = %04x  alnum = %04x\n",
     }
 
 
-  if (errors != 0)
-    {
-      printf ("  %d error%s for `%s' locale\n\n\n", errors,
-	      errors == 1 ? "" : "s", setlocale (LC_ALL, NULL));
-      return 1;
-    }
-
-  printf ("  No errors for `%s' locale\n\n\n", setlocale (LC_ALL, NULL));
+  printf ("Completed testing for `%s' locale\n\n\n", setlocale (LC_ALL, NULL));
   return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/math/test-tgmath2.c b/math/test-tgmath2.c
index 37afa8a08a..4aeb877b8e 100644
--- a/math/test-tgmath2.c
+++ b/math/test-tgmath2.c
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <tgmath.h>
 
+#include <support/check.h>
+
 //#define DEBUG
 
 typedef complex float cfloat;
@@ -87,13 +89,6 @@ enum
 int count;
 int counts[Tlast][C_last];
 
-#define FAIL(str) \
-  do								\
-    {								\
-      printf ("%s failure on line %d\n", (str), __LINE__);	\
-      result = 1;						\
-    }								\
-  while (0)
 #define TEST_TYPE_ONLY(expr, rettype) \
   do								\
     {								\
@@ -133,8 +128,6 @@ int counts[Tlast][C_last];
 int
 test_cos (const int Vint4, const long long int Vllong4)
 {
-  int result = 0;
-
   TEST (cos (vfloat1), float, cos);
   TEST (cos (vdouble1), double, cos);
   TEST (cos (vldouble1), ldouble, cos);
@@ -152,7 +145,7 @@ test_cos (const int Vint4, const long long int Vllong4)
   TEST (cos (Vcdouble1), cdouble, cos);
   TEST (cos (Vcldouble1), cldouble, cos);
 
-  return result;
+  return 0;
 }
 
 int
diff --git a/support/check.h b/support/check.h
index 711f34b83b..7ea22c7a2c 100644
--- a/support/check.h
+++ b/support/check.h
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
 
 __BEGIN_DECLS
 
+/* Record a test failure, print the failure message to standard output
+   and pass the result of 1 through.  */
+#define FAIL(...) \
+  support_print_failure_impl (__FILE__, __LINE__, __VA_ARGS__)
+
 /* Record a test failure, print the failure message to standard output
    and return 1.  */
 #define FAIL_RET(...) \