diff --git a/src/io/files.c b/src/io/files.c
index 59f05f7..ce14821 100644
--- a/src/io/files.c
+++ b/src/io/files.c
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ void delete_files(ModuleFileStack *stack) {
 
 // behaves like fgets except that it has defined behavior when n == 1
 static void custom_fgets(char *buffer, size_t n, FILE *stream) {
+    if (feof(stream)) {
+        buffer[0] = '\n';
+        buffer[1] = 0;
+        return;
+    }
     if (n == 1) {
         buffer[0] = (char) fgetc(stream);
         buffer[1] = 0;
diff --git a/src/llvm/llvm-ir/expr.c b/src/llvm/llvm-ir/expr.c
index 5b2d0d3..9341b31 100644
--- a/src/llvm/llvm-ir/expr.c
+++ b/src/llvm/llvm-ir/expr.c
@@ -372,10 +372,13 @@ BackendError impl_variable_load(LLVMBackendCompileUnit *unit, LLVMLocalScope *sc
         } else {
             type = variable->impl.declaration.type;
         }
-
         get_type_impl(unit, scope->func_scope->global_scope, type, &llvm_type);
 
-        *llvm_result = LLVMBuildLoad2(builder, llvm_type, llvm_variable, "");
+        if (LLVMGetTypeKind(LLVMTypeOf(llvm_variable)) == LLVMPointerTypeKind) {
+            *llvm_result = LLVMBuildLoad2(builder, llvm_type, llvm_variable, "");
+        } else {
+            *llvm_result = llvm_variable;
+        }
     }
 
     return SUCCESS;