diff --git a/expat/tests/runtests.c b/expat/tests/runtests.c
index bb963fc3..a2dc7e97 100644
--- a/expat/tests/runtests.c
+++ b/expat/tests/runtests.c
@@ -8683,7 +8683,9 @@ START_TEST(test_alloc_realloc_many_attributes)
         if (_XML_Parse_SINGLE_BYTES(parser, text, strlen(text),
                                     XML_TRUE) != XML_STATUS_ERROR)
             break;
-        XML_ParserReset(parser, NULL);
+        /* See comment in test_alloc_parse_xdecl() */
+        alloc_teardown();
+        alloc_setup();
     }
     if (i == 0)
         fail("Parse succeeded despite no reallocations");