diff --git a/src/libsyntax/ext/ifmt.rs b/src/libsyntax/ext/ifmt.rs
index 474c0ce60a782..f7fd2326215ff 100644
--- a/src/libsyntax/ext/ifmt.rs
+++ b/src/libsyntax/ext/ifmt.rs
@@ -588,11 +588,14 @@ impl Context {
         //      foo(bar(&1))
         // the lifetime of `1` doesn't outlast the call to `bar`, so it's not
         // vald for the call to `foo`. To work around this all arguments to the
-        // fmt! string are shoved into locals.
+        // fmt! string are shoved into locals. Furthermore, we shove the address
+        // of each variable because we don't want to move out of the arguments
+        // passed to this function.
         for (i, &e) in self.args.iter().enumerate() {
             if self.arg_types[i].is_none() { loop } // error already generated
 
             let name = self.ecx.ident_of(fmt!("__arg%u", i));
+            let e = self.ecx.expr_addr_of(e.span, e);
             lets.push(self.ecx.stmt_let(e.span, false, name, e));
             locals.push(self.format_arg(e.span, Left(i), name));
         }
@@ -600,6 +603,7 @@ impl Context {
             if !self.name_types.contains_key(&name) { loop }
 
             let lname = self.ecx.ident_of(fmt!("__arg%s", name));
+            let e = self.ecx.expr_addr_of(e.span, e);
             lets.push(self.ecx.stmt_let(e.span, false, lname, e));
             names[*self.name_positions.get(&name)] =
                 Some(self.format_arg(e.span, Right(name), lname));
@@ -643,7 +647,7 @@ impl Context {
             Right(s) => *self.name_types.get(&s)
         };
 
-        let argptr = self.ecx.expr_addr_of(sp, self.ecx.expr_ident(sp, ident));
+        let argptr = self.ecx.expr_ident(sp, ident);
         let fmt_trait = match ty {
             Unknown => "Default",
             Known(tyname) => {
diff --git a/src/test/run-pass/ifmt.rs b/src/test/run-pass/ifmt.rs
index 44d4386e0c5bd..236fa44939a38 100644
--- a/src/test/run-pass/ifmt.rs
+++ b/src/test/run-pass/ifmt.rs
@@ -215,6 +215,11 @@ pub fn main() {
 
     test_write();
     test_print();
+
+    // make sure that format! doesn't move out of local variables
+    let a = ~3;
+    format!("{:?}", a);
+    format!("{:?}", a);
 }
 
 // Basic test to make sure that we can invoke the `write!` macro with an