From f602a6acd734c61254d7887665d4a53960b7958a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gingerBill <gingerBill@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:38:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #6725 #6798 #4943

---
 src/llvm_backend_expr.cpp | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/llvm_backend_expr.cpp b/src/llvm_backend_expr.cpp
index e02f743ca..7eb32279e 100644
--- a/src/llvm_backend_expr.cpp
+++ b/src/llvm_backend_expr.cpp
@@ -6571,11 +6571,12 @@ gb_internal lbAddr lb_build_addr_internal(lbProcedure *p, Ast *expr) {
 					} else {
 						item = lb_emit_ptr_offset(p, lb_emit_load(p, arr), index);
 					}
+
+					// make sure it's ^T and not [^]T
+					item.type = alloc_type_multi_pointer_to_pointer(item.type);
 					if (sub_sel.index.count > 0) {
 						item = lb_emit_deep_field_gep(p, item, sub_sel);
 					}
-				// make sure it's ^T and not [^]T
-				item.type = alloc_type_multi_pointer_to_pointer(item.type);
 
 					return lb_addr(item);
 				} else if (addr.kind == lbAddr_Swizzle) {