From 3fd828c51f124e22de34a777b32946e82e0b3760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom French <tom@tomfren.ch>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:48:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore: revert #6375

---
 compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/function_builder/mod.rs | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/function_builder/mod.rs b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/function_builder/mod.rs
index 6f76585336a..efa49b480c1 100644
--- a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/function_builder/mod.rs
+++ b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/function_builder/mod.rs
@@ -458,7 +458,13 @@ impl FunctionBuilder {
         match self.type_of_value(value) {
             Type::Numeric(_) => (),
             Type::Function => (),
-            Type::Reference(_) => (),
+            Type::Reference(element) => {
+                if element.contains_an_array() {
+                    let reference = value;
+                    let value = self.insert_load(reference, element.as_ref().clone());
+                    self.update_array_reference_count(value, increment);
+                }
+            }
             Type::Array(..) | Type::Slice(..) => {
                 // If there are nested arrays or slices, we wait until ArrayGet
                 // is issued to increment the count of that array.