Bruno Haible wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
>> setrlimit(RLIMIT_AS, {rlim_cur=RLIM_INFINITY, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0
>> getrlimit(RLIMIT_AS, {rlim_cur=RLIM_INFINITY, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0
>
> No brk() calls. It looks really like GCC has optimized out the two malloc()
> calls. And indeed, with a recent GCC 4.7 snapshot I reproduce the problem.
>
> A workaround would be to use -fno-builtin-malloc. But I can just as well
> disable the optimization in the test:
>
>
> 2012-02-04  Bruno Haible  <br...@clisp.org>
>
>       get-rusage-as, get-rusage-data tests: Avoid test failure with gcc-4.7.
>       * tests/test-get-rusage-as.c (main): Assign the malloc() results to
>       global variables.
>       * tests/test-get-rusage-data.c (main): Likewise.
>       Reported by Jim Meyering.

Nice!  Thanks for investigating and fixing that.
I've undone the exclusion in idutils.
And thanks to Claudio for keeping me honest ;-)

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