diff --git a/src/rustc/middle/trans/tvec.rs b/src/rustc/middle/trans/tvec.rs
index 0b3b005503c..e41e8665cd8 100644
--- a/src/rustc/middle/trans/tvec.rs
+++ b/src/rustc/middle/trans/tvec.rs
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ fn trans_evec(bcx: block, args: [@ast::expr],
     let vec_ty = node_id_type(bcx, id);
     let unit_ty = ty::sequence_element_type(bcx.tcx(), vec_ty);
     let llunitty = type_of::type_of(ccx, unit_ty);
+    let unit_sz = llsize_of(ccx, llunitty);
 
     let mut {bcx, val, dataptr} =
         alt vst {
@@ -122,8 +123,14 @@ fn trans_evec(bcx: block, args: [@ast::expr],
             let n = vec::len(args);
             let n = C_uint(ccx, n);
             let vp = base::arrayalloca(bcx, llunitty, n);
-            let v = C_struct([vp, n]);
-            {bcx: bcx, val: v, dataptr: vp}
+            let len = Mul(bcx, n, unit_sz);
+
+            let p = base::alloca(bcx, T_struct([T_ptr(llunitty),
+                                                ccx.int_type]));
+            Store(bcx, vp, GEPi(bcx, p, [0, abi::slice_elt_base]));
+            Store(bcx, len, GEPi(bcx, p, [0, abi::slice_elt_len]));
+
+            {bcx: bcx, val: p, dataptr: vp}
           }
           ast::vstore_uniq {
             let {bcx, val} = alloc_uniq(bcx, llunitty, args.len());
@@ -157,6 +164,9 @@ fn trans_evec(bcx: block, args: [@ast::expr],
         // We wrote into the destination in the fixed case.
         ret bcx;
       }
+      ast::vstore_slice(_) {
+        ret base::store_in_dest(bcx, Load(bcx, val), dest);
+      }
       _ {
         ret base::store_in_dest(bcx, val, dest);
       }
diff --git a/src/test/run-pass/evec-slice.rs b/src/test/run-pass/evec-slice.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1c7799ce2c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-pass/evec-slice.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+fn main() {
+    let x : [int]/& = [1,2,3,4,5]/&;
+    let mut z = [1,2,3,4,5]/&;
+    z = x;
+    assert z[0] == 1;
+    assert z[4] == 5;
+}
diff --git a/src/test/run-pass/regions-borrow-estr-uniq.rs b/src/test/run-pass/regions-borrow-estr-uniq.rs
index 2794a03f5ff..f118b96bb41 100644
--- a/src/test/run-pass/regions-borrow-estr-uniq.rs
+++ b/src/test/run-pass/regions-borrow-estr-uniq.rs
@@ -6,4 +6,8 @@ fn main() {
     let p = "hello"/~;
     let r = foo(p);
     assert r == 'h' as u8;
+
+    let p = "hello";
+    let r = foo(p);
+    assert r == 'h' as u8;
 }
diff --git a/src/test/run-pass/regions-borrow-evec-uniq.rs b/src/test/run-pass/regions-borrow-evec-uniq.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3cfcd015dde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-pass/regions-borrow-evec-uniq.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+fn foo(x: [int]/&) -> int {
+    x[0]
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let p = [1,2,3,4,5]/~;
+    let r = foo(p);
+    assert r == 1;
+
+    let p = [5,4,3,2,1];
+    let r = foo(p);
+    assert r == 5;
+}
diff --git a/src/test/run-pass/vec-concat.rs b/src/test/run-pass/vec-concat.rs
index 08a81ba6e92..3a5a1916d64 100644
--- a/src/test/run-pass/vec-concat.rs
+++ b/src/test/run-pass/vec-concat.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-
-
-
 // -*- rust -*-
 fn main() {
     let a: [int] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];