Another shot at fixing the issues with (constant) struct literals and their addresses. See DMD2682, #218, #324. The idea is to separate the notion of const from 'this variable can always be replaced with its initializer' in the frontend. To do that, I introduced Declaration::isSameAsInitializer, which is overridden in VarDeclaration to return false for constants that have a struct literal initializer. So {{{ const S s = S(5); void foo() { auto ps = &s; } // is no longer replaced by void foo() { auto ps = &(S(5)); } }}} To make taking the address of a struct constant with a struct-initializer outside of function scope possible, I made sure that AddrExp::optimize doesn't try to run the argument's optimization with WANTinterpret - that'd again replace the constant with a struct literal temporary.

/*
 * Placed in public domain.
 * Written by Hauke Duden and Walter Bright
 */

/* This is for use with variable argument lists with extern(D) linkage. */

/* Modified for LDC (LLVM D Compiler) by Tomas Lindquist Olsen, 2007 */

module std.stdarg;

alias void* va_list;

T va_arg(T)(ref va_list vp)
{
    size_t size = T.sizeof > size_t.sizeof ? size_t.sizeof : T.sizeof;
    va_list vptmp = cast(va_list)((cast(size_t)vp + size - 1) &  ~(size - 1));
    vp = vptmp + T.sizeof;
    return *cast(T*)vptmp;
}