How to get the address of a static struct?

[FoxyBrown via Digitalmars-d-learn]

static struct S
{
   public static:
        int x;
        string a;
}


....


auto s = &S; // ?!?!?! invalid because S is a struct, but...


basically s = S. So S.x = s.x and s.a = S.a;

Why do I have to do this?

Because in visual D, global structs don't show up in the 
debugger. So if I create a local alias, I can see see them, but I 
don't wanna have to do one variable for each variable in the 
struct...