Loosening the connection between the LLVM type and the Rust type
is necessary to use non-nullary enum constructors as const initializers,
because the const needs to be initialized with data of the actual type of
the variant in question, which is (generally) not the same as the u8
array in the `type_of` type.

Thus, referring to a const now requires casting the LLVM global to the
expected pointer type instead of using it as-is.