From 0ad601d3c1657216d27be839173861594e3e2421 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 09:43:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fixes #18856 [backport] (#18879)

---
 compiler/semexprs.nim | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/compiler/semexprs.nim b/compiler/semexprs.nim
index 5a1426f2b..ee2626922 100644
--- a/compiler/semexprs.nim
+++ b/compiler/semexprs.nim
@@ -1661,7 +1661,7 @@ proc takeImplicitAddr(c: PContext, n: PNode; isLent: bool): PNode =
       localError(c.config, n.info, errXStackEscape % renderTree(n, {renderNoComments}))
     else:
       localError(c.config, n.info, errExprHasNoAddress)
-  result = newNodeIT(nkHiddenAddr, n.info, makePtrType(c, n.typ))
+  result = newNodeIT(nkHiddenAddr, n.info, if n.typ.kind in {tyVar, tyLent}: n.typ else: makePtrType(c, n.typ))
   result.add(n)
 
 proc asgnToResultVar(c: PContext, n, le, ri: PNode) {.inline.} =