diff --git a/src/test/run-fail/unwind-partial-box.rs b/src/test/run-fail/unwind-partial-box.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a08bb27811b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-fail/unwind-partial-box.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+// error-pattern:fail
+
+fn f() -> [int] { fail; }
+
+// Voodoo. In unwind-alt we had to do this to trigger the bug. Might
+// have been to do with memory allocation patterns.
+fn prime() {
+    @0;
+}
+
+fn partial() {
+    let x = @f();
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    prime();
+    partial();
+}
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diff --git a/src/test/run-fail/unwind-partial-vec.rs b/src/test/run-fail/unwind-partial-vec.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0e4b27cd836
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-fail/unwind-partial-vec.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+// error-pattern:fail
+
+fn f() -> [int] { fail; }
+
+// Voodoo. In unwind-alt we had to do this to trigger the bug. Might
+// have been to do with memory allocation patterns.
+fn prime() {
+    @0;
+}
+
+fn partial() {
+    let x = [[0], f(), [0]];
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    prime();
+    partial();
+}
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