Clean up some suspicious code. There's no guarantee a constant of integer type is a ConstantInt, so it's not safe to just cast<> these to ConstantInt. (It could be a constant expression, for example) The code is shorter this way too :).

module globals1;
extern(C) int printf(char*, ...);

char[] gstr = "hello world";

void main()
{
    printf("%.*s\n", gstr.length, gstr.ptr);
    char[] str = gstr;
    printf("%.*s\n", str.length, str.ptr);
}