tst-obprintf failed with GCC 4.7.
It turned out that this is the fault of GCC optimizing away the
following from malloc/mcheck.c:
/* We call malloc() once here to ensure it is initialized. */
void *p = malloc (0);
free (p);
gcc sees the malloc(0);free pair and removes it completely.
And now malloc is not properly initialized and we screw up if both
mcheck is used (via tst-obprintf) and MALLOC_CHECK_ is set (as it is in my
environment).