From d66708fed25a070df1e42e66ef28147b8e1541ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Bezanson <jeff.bezanson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:45:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix #8464

backport of 94093ce161dd662f93659028c8d
---
 src/cgutils.cpp | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/cgutils.cpp b/src/cgutils.cpp
index 94119e9f492f2..09aeee6c5fb32 100644
--- a/src/cgutils.cpp
+++ b/src/cgutils.cpp
@@ -1477,6 +1477,14 @@ static jl_value_t *static_constant_instance(Constant *constant, jl_value_t *jt)
         return jl_new_bits(jt,&val);
     }
 
+    // issue #8464
+    ConstantExpr *ce = dyn_cast<ConstantExpr>(constant);
+    if (ce != NULL) {
+        if (ce->isCast()) {
+            return static_constant_instance(dyn_cast<Constant>(ce->getOperand(0)), jt);
+        }
+    }
+
     assert(jl_is_tuple(jt));
 
     size_t nargs = 0;