diff --git a/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml b/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
index d0808a2daf..0361e6eff0 100644
--- a/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
+++ b/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
@@ -5548,6 +5548,17 @@ This platform doesn't supports Boost.Container.
             <toolset name="sunpro-5_3-sunos"/>
         </mark-unusable>
     </library>
+  
+    <!-- type_erasure -->
+    <library name="type_erasure">
+      <mark-unusable>
+        <toolset name="gcc-4.2.1"/>
+        <toolset name="gcc-4.4*"/>
+        <toolset name="gcc-mingw-4.4*"/>
+        <toolset name="darwin-4.2.1"/>
+        <note author="Steven Watanabe" refid="17"/>
+      </mark-unusable>
+    </library>
 
     <!-- type_traits -->
     <library name="type_traits">