diff --git a/phpunit/src/Build/IncrementalDeclarationTest.php b/phpunit/src/Build/IncrementalDeclarationTest.php
index f22d03a3..301f7b9a 100644
--- a/phpunit/src/Build/IncrementalDeclarationTest.php
+++ b/phpunit/src/Build/IncrementalDeclarationTest.php
@@ -137,6 +137,31 @@ PHP);
         );
     }
 
+    public function testGlobalArrayConstantInitializersSurviveColdAndWarmConversion(): void
+    {
+        file_put_contents($this->provider, <<<'PHP'
+<?php
+namespace Incremental;
+const LIMIT = 42;
+const FIRST = [[[LIMIT, 1]], [[2, 3]]];
+const ENABLED = true;
+const SECOND = [0 => ['left' => LIMIT], 'tail' => [2, [3]]];
+function answer(): int { return FIRST[0][0][0] + SECOND[0]['left']; }
+PHP);
+        $first = $this->convertProject();
+        $extension = $this->buildDirectory . '/extension-incremental.cc';
+        $coldCode = file_get_contents($extension);
+        self::assertStringContainsString('php::Array tmp_var_', $coldCode);
+        $coldConstants = $this->property($first, 'constants');
+        self::assertSame(\TypePhp\Type::BOOL, $coldConstants['_const_var_Incremental__ENABLED']->type);
+        $second = $this->convertProject();
+        self::assertFalse($this->invoke($second, 'shouldRegeneratePhpFile', $this->provider));
+        self::assertSame($coldCode, file_get_contents($extension));
+        $warmConstants = $this->property($second, 'constants');
+        self::assertSame($coldConstants['_const_var_Incremental__LIMIT']->type, $warmConstants['_const_var_Incremental__LIMIT']->type);
+        self::assertSame(\TypePhp\Type::BOOL, $warmConstants['_const_var_Incremental__ENABLED']->type);
+    }
+
     public function testGeneratorFingerprintChangeKeepsIdenticalCppTimestamps(): void
     {
         $first = $this->convertProject();
diff --git a/src/Preprocessor.php b/src/Preprocessor.php
index e987acb5..75e2e67e 100644
--- a/src/Preprocessor.php
+++ b/src/Preprocessor.php
@@ -917,9 +917,7 @@ class Preprocessor extends CompilerBase
             if (!isset($this->constants[$key])) {
                 continue;
             }
-            $this->resetFunction();
-            $this->constants[$key]->value = $this->parseIdentifier($constant->value);
-            $this->constants[$key]->codegenFinalized = true;
+            $this->finalizeGlobalConstantValue($this->constants[$key], $constant->value);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/Resolver/DeclarationSymbolTrait.php b/src/Resolver/DeclarationSymbolTrait.php
index 804b9cc1..5d8fa52d 100644
--- a/src/Resolver/DeclarationSymbolTrait.php
+++ b/src/Resolver/DeclarationSymbolTrait.php
@@ -17,16 +17,36 @@ trait DeclarationSymbolTrait
     {
         foreach ($v2->consts as $const) {
             $name  = $this->parseIdentifier($const->name);
-            $value = $this->compilerPhase === self::PHASE_CONVERT
-                ? $this->parseIdentifier($const->value)
-                : '';
             if ($this->namespace) {
                 $name = $this->namespace . '\\' . $name;
             }
-            $this->addConstant($name, $value, $const->value);
+            // Declaration finalization owns whole-program initialization.
+            // Re-parsing a dirty file must not replace that metadata with
+            // temporaries allocated in the function-body context.
+            if ($this->compilerPhase === self::PHASE_CONVERT
+                && ($this->constants[$this->escapeConstVar($name)]->codegenFinalized ?? false)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            $this->addConstant($name, '', $const->value);
+            if ($this->compilerPhase === self::PHASE_CONVERT) {
+                $this->finalizeGlobalConstantValue($this->constants[$this->escapeConstVar($name)], $const->value);
+            }
         }
     }
 
+    protected function finalizeGlobalConstantValue(\stdClass $constant, Node\Expr $expression): void
+    {
+        $this->resetFunction();
+        $constant->value = $this->parseIdentifier($expression);
+        $constant->initializationCode = $this->context->localVars ? $this->genScopeVarDecl() : '';
+        $constant->initializationCode .= $this->parseBeforeStmtLines();
+        $constant->afterInitializationCode = $this->parseAfterStmtLines();
+        // Clean files are not re-parsed by convert(): finalize their scalar
+        // storage types here too, keeping cold/warm declarations identical.
+        $constant->type = $this->detectStrValueType($constant->value);
+        $constant->codegenFinalized = true;
+    }
+
     protected function addConstant(string $name, string $value, ?Node\Expr $valueExpr = null): void
     {
         $constInfo                    = new \stdClass();
@@ -39,6 +59,8 @@ trait DeclarationSymbolTrait
         $constInfo->namespace = $this->namespace;
         $constInfo->name = $name;
         $constInfo->sourceFile = $this->file;
+        $constInfo->initializationCode = '';
+        $constInfo->afterInitializationCode = '';
         $this->constants[$this->escapeConstVar($name)] = $constInfo;
         $this->symbolDeclInFile[$this->getConstantDependencySymbol($name)] = $this->file;
     }
diff --git a/src/Translator.php b/src/Translator.php
index 7554c335..bdd14331 100644
--- a/src/Translator.php
+++ b/src/Translator.php
@@ -1571,8 +1571,20 @@ CODE;
         $code .= $this->genCompiledGeneratorFingerprintRegistration();
         $code .= '// register constants' . PHP_EOL;
         foreach ($this->constants as $name => $const) {
+            $initializationCode = $const->initializationCode ?? '';
+            $afterInitializationCode = $const->afterInitializationCode ?? '';
+            $scopedInitialization = $initializationCode !== '' || $afterInitializationCode !== '';
+            if ($scopedInitialization) {
+                // Each constant has its own temporary namespace. Declaration
+                // lowering resets temporary IDs between independent values.
+                $code .= "do {\n" . $initializationCode;
+            }
             $code .= "{$name} = {$const->value};\n";
+            $code .= $afterInitializationCode;
             $code .= 'php::fn::define(' . $this->genCharPtr($const->name, true) . ', ' . $name . ');' . PHP_EOL;
+            if ($scopedInitialization) {
+                $code .= "} while (0);\n";
+            }
         }
         $code .= '// global vars ' . PHP_EOL;
         foreach ($extensionGlobalVars as $name => $type) {
diff --git a/tests/compiler/stdlib/global-nested-array-constants.phpt b/tests/compiler/stdlib/global-nested-array-constants.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..da54ca4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/compiler/stdlib/global-nested-array-constants.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+--TEST--
+Global nested array constants keep initialization temporaries in separate scopes
+--FILE--
+<?php
+namespace GlobalArrayConstants {
+
+const LIMIT = 42;
+const FIRST = [[[LIMIT, 1]], [[2, 3]]];
+const SECOND = [0 => ['left' => LIMIT], 'tail' => [2, [3]]];
+const THIRD = [FIRST, SECOND];
+}
+
+namespace {
+function main(): void
+{
+    var_dump(GlobalArrayConstants\FIRST[0][0][0]);
+    var_dump(GlobalArrayConstants\FIRST[1][0][1]);
+    var_dump(GlobalArrayConstants\SECOND[0]['left']);
+    var_dump(GlobalArrayConstants\SECOND['tail'][1][0]);
+    var_dump(GlobalArrayConstants\THIRD[0] === GlobalArrayConstants\FIRST);
+    var_dump(GlobalArrayConstants\THIRD[1] === GlobalArrayConstants\SECOND);
+}
+}
+?>
+--EXPECT--
+int(42)
+int(3)
+int(42)
+int(3)
+bool(true)
+bool(true)