diff --git a/releasenotes.md b/releasenotes.md
index bd4e6ba2e..a83ae6fa7 100644
--- a/releasenotes.md
+++ b/releasenotes.md
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 - Add check in formatter printing "%c".
 - Fix bug where `!!` and `!` was not recognized to jump out of the current scope.
 - Fix bug when including compile time parameters in trailing body more than once.
+- Fix issue with compiling a constant struct containing a string array in a local context.
 
 ### Stdlib changes
 - Increase BitWriter.write_bits limit up to 32 bits.
diff --git a/src/compiler/llvm_codegen_expr.c b/src/compiler/llvm_codegen_expr.c
index 04eeae929..61629ac31 100644
--- a/src/compiler/llvm_codegen_expr.c
+++ b/src/compiler/llvm_codegen_expr.c
@@ -7251,7 +7251,10 @@ static void llvm_emit_default_arg(GenContext *c, BEValue *value, Expr *expr)
 void llvm_emit_expr_global_value(GenContext *c, BEValue *value, Expr *expr)
 {
 	sema_cast_const(expr);
+	LLVMBuilderRef b = c->builder;
+	c->builder = c->global_builder;
 	llvm_emit_expr(c, value, expr);
+	c->builder = b;
 	ASSERT0(!llvm_value_is_addr(value));
 }