This test requires pthreads, so, I've copied bits from another testcase that uses -pthreads in the same way.
Checked it in.
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr53849.c b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr53849.c
index 3b67010..eddc45f 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr53849.c
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr53849.c
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
/* { dg-do compile } */
+/* { dg-require-effective-target pthread } */
/* { dg-options "-O2 -ftree-parallelize-loops=2 -fno-tree-loop-im" } */
extern int *b, *e[8], d;
