diff --git a/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-call-twice-on-heap.rs b/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-call-twice-on-heap.rs
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index 00000000000..4436675d69a
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+++ b/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-call-twice-on-heap.rs
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+// Copyright 2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// Testing guarantees provided by once functions.
+// This program would segfault if it were legal.
+
+extern mod extra;
+use extra::arc;
+use std::util;
+
+fn foo(blk: ~once fn()) {
+    blk();
+    blk(); //~ ERROR use of moved value
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let x = arc::ARC(true);
+    do foo {
+        assert!(*x.get());
+        util::ignore(x);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-call-twice-on-stack.rs b/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-call-twice-on-stack.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7048f1a7a76
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+++ b/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-call-twice-on-stack.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// Copyright 2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// Testing guarantees provided by once functions.
+// This program would segfault if it were legal.
+
+extern mod extra;
+use extra::arc;
+use std::util;
+
+fn foo(blk: &once fn()) {
+    blk();
+    blk(); //~ ERROR use of moved value
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let x = arc::ARC(true);
+    do foo {
+        assert!(*x.get());
+        util::ignore(x);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-copy-stack-once-fn-copy.rs b/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-copy-stack-once-fn-copy.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6f524c0068b
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+++ b/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-copy-stack-once-fn-copy.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// Copyright 2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// Though it should be legal to copy a heap-allocated "once fn:Copy",
+// stack closures are not deep-copied, so (counterintuitively) it should be
+// illegal to copy them.
+
+fn foo<'r>(blk: &'r once fn:Copy()) -> (&'r once fn:Copy(), &'r once fn:Copy()) {
+    (copy blk, blk) //~ ERROR copying a value of non-copyable type
+}
+
+fn main() {
+}
diff --git a/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-move-out-of-non-once-on-heap.rs b/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-move-out-of-non-once-on-heap.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..61f158cec27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-move-out-of-non-once-on-heap.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// Copyright 2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// Testing guarantees provided by once functions.
+// This program would segfault if it were legal.
+
+extern mod extra;
+use extra::arc;
+use std::util;
+
+fn foo(blk: ~fn()) {
+    blk();
+    blk();
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let x = arc::ARC(true);
+    do foo {
+        assert!(*x.get());
+        util::ignore(x); //~ ERROR cannot move out of captured outer variable
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-move-out-of-non-once-on-stack.rs b/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-move-out-of-non-once-on-stack.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..42c8b9a9998
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/compile-fail/once-cant-move-out-of-non-once-on-stack.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// Copyright 2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// Testing guarantees provided by once functions.
+// This program would segfault if it were legal.
+
+extern mod extra;
+use extra::arc;
+use std::util;
+
+fn foo(blk: &fn()) {
+    blk();
+    blk();
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let x = arc::ARC(true);
+    do foo {
+        assert!(*x.get());
+        util::ignore(x); //~ ERROR cannot move out of captured outer variable
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/run-pass/once-move-out-on-heap.rs b/src/test/run-pass/once-move-out-on-heap.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8846abb47fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-pass/once-move-out-on-heap.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+// Copyright 2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// Testing guarantees provided by once functions.
+
+extern mod extra;
+use extra::arc;
+use std::util;
+
+fn foo(blk: ~once fn()) {
+    blk();
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let x = arc::ARC(true);
+    do foo {
+        assert!(*x.get());
+        util::ignore(x);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/run-pass/once-move-out-on-stack.rs b/src/test/run-pass/once-move-out-on-stack.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..21e4a3fa426
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-pass/once-move-out-on-stack.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+// Copyright 2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// Testing guarantees provided by once functions.
+
+extern mod extra;
+use extra::arc;
+use std::util;
+
+fn foo(blk: &once fn()) {
+    blk();
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let x = arc::ARC(true);
+    do foo {
+        assert!(*x.get());
+        util::ignore(x);
+    }
+}