dereferences in statics can create broken code

[arielb1]

STR

extern {
    static error_message_count: u32; // anything will do
}
pub static BAZ: u32 = *&error_message_count;
fn main() {}

[arielb1]

Result

This code can't be linked. Currently it trips an LLVM assertion.

[eefriedman]

I think this is a duplicate... but I can't find it at the moment; essentially, we don't enforce the restriction that you're not allowed to dereference the address of a static.

[alexispurslane]

Should this restriction be added?

[jonas-schievink]

This seems to segfault on stable and beta. On nightly it doesn't compile, so this looks fixed: error: cannot refer to other statics by value, use the address-of operator or a constant instead