diff --git a/Parser.pas b/Parser.pas
index 8de83b7..a344576 100644
--- a/Parser.pas
+++ b/Parser.pas
@@ -1966,14 +1966,19 @@ var
                errorFound := true;
                end; {else}
             tp := Subscript(tree^.left);
-            if tp^.kind <> arrayType then
-               Error(47)
-            else begin
-               tp := tp^.atype;
-               offset := offset + size*tp^.size;
-               Subscript := tp;
-               end; {else}
             end {if}
+         else begin
+            size := 0;
+            tp := Subscript(tree);
+            end; {else}
+         if tp^.kind = arrayType then begin
+            tp := tp^.atype;
+            offset := offset + size*tp^.size;
+            Subscript := tp;
+            end {if}
+         else if tp^.kind = functionType then begin
+            Subscript := tp;
+            end {else if}
          else begin
             Error(47);
             errorFound := true;
@@ -2010,6 +2015,11 @@ var
             iPtr^.pName := ip^.name;
             end; {else}
          end {else if}
+      else if tree^.token.kind = stringConst then begin
+         Subscript := StringType(tree^.token.prefix);
+         iPtr^.isName := false;
+         iPtr^.pStr := tree^.token.sval;
+         end {else if}
       else begin
          Error(47);
          errorFound := true;
diff --git a/cc.notes b/cc.notes
index 67cac51..7a5be4e 100644
--- a/cc.notes
+++ b/cc.notes
@@ -1707,6 +1707,10 @@ int foo(int[42]);
 
 (Michael Hackett)
 
+176. Certain address expressions (e.g. &"string"[1]) would cause spurious errors if they were used in the initializers of global or static variables.
+
+(Devin Reade)
+
 -- Bugs from C 2.1.0 that have been fixed -----------------------------------
 
 1.  In some situations, fread() reread the first 1K or so of the file.