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.

module constructors;

import tango.io.Console;

class C
{
    this()
    {
        Cout("C()").newline;
    }
    this(char[] str)
    {
        Cout("C(")(str)(")").newline;
    }
}

class D : C
{
    this()
    {
        super("D");
        Cout("D()").newline;
    }
}

void main()
{
    auto c1 = new C();
    auto c2 = new C("C");
    auto d = new D();
}