Make == for associative arrays test for equality, not identity. _aaEq was added to runtime/internal/aaA.d which forwards to TypeInfo_AssociativeArray.equals in genobj.d. On the codegen side, DtoAAEquals was added to gen/aa.cpp and is called from EqualExp::toElem in gen/toir.cpp. I assume that the frontend will produce an error if == is used on associative arrays of different type. This fixes DMD bug 1429.

module a;

extern(C) int printf(char*, ...);

int i = 42;

void main()
{
    int j;
    j = i;
    int* p;
    p = &j;
    int k = *p;
    assert(k == 42);

    byte b = -1;
    int i = b;
    assert(i == -1);

    int* p2 = p;

    printf("Done\n");
}