diff --git a/releasenotes.md b/releasenotes.md
index 0bd8a5537..b1a0f0559 100644
--- a/releasenotes.md
+++ b/releasenotes.md
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
 - Recursive definitions not discovered when initializer is access on other const #2817
 - Slice overrun detected late hit codegen assert #2822
 - Compile time dereference of a constant slice was too generous #2821
+- Constant deref of subscript had inserted checks #2818
 
 ### Stdlib changes
 - Add `ThreadPool` join function to wait for all threads to finish in the pool without destroying the threads.
diff --git a/src/compiler/llvm_codegen_expr.c b/src/compiler/llvm_codegen_expr.c
index 93153c2a2..06d38e1e0 100644
--- a/src/compiler/llvm_codegen_expr.c
+++ b/src/compiler/llvm_codegen_expr.c
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ static inline void llvm_emit_subscript(GenContext *c, BEValue *value, Expr *expr
 	}
 	llvm_emit_subscript_addr(c, value, expr);
 
-	if (safe_mode_enabled() && value->alignment > 1 && !c->emitting_load_store_check && parent_type->type_kind != TYPE_ARRAY)
+	if (!llvm_is_global_eval(c) && safe_mode_enabled() && value->alignment > 1 && !c->emitting_load_store_check && parent_type->type_kind != TYPE_ARRAY)
 	{
 		LLVMValueRef as_int = LLVMBuildPtrToInt(c->builder, value->value, llvm_get_type(c, type_usz), "");
 		LLVMValueRef align = llvm_const_int(c, type_usz, value->alignment);
diff --git a/test/test_suite/globals/taddr_subscript_global.c3t b/test/test_suite/globals/taddr_subscript_global.c3t
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..acf9a0c6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_suite/globals/taddr_subscript_global.c3t
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+// #target: macos-x64
+module test;
+int a;
+fn int main()
+{
+	static any[] x = { &&((&a + 1)[2]), };
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/* #expect: test.ll
+
+@test.a = global i32 0, align 4
+@.__const_slice = private unnamed_addr global [1 x %any] [%any { ptr getelementptr inbounds (i8, ptr getelementptr (i8, ptr @test.a, i64 4), i64 8), i64 ptrtoint (ptr @"$ct.int" to i64) }], align 16
+@main.x = internal unnamed_addr global %"any[]" { ptr @.__const_slice, i64 1 }, align 8
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