diff --git a/NETGenerator/NETGenerator.cs b/NETGenerator/NETGenerator.cs
index 5d7189c9b..085f2e977 100644
--- a/NETGenerator/NETGenerator.cs
+++ b/NETGenerator/NETGenerator.cs
@@ -9837,14 +9837,20 @@ namespace PascalABCCompiler.NETGenerator
         {
             Label EndLabel = il.DefineLabel();
             Label FalseLabel = il.DefineLabel();
-
+            bool tmp_is_dot_expr = is_dot_expr;
+            bool tmp_is_addr = is_addr;
+            is_dot_expr = false;//don't box the condition expression
+            is_addr = false;
             value.condition.visit(this);
+            is_dot_expr = tmp_is_dot_expr;
+            is_addr = tmp_is_addr;
             il.Emit(OpCodes.Brfalse, FalseLabel);
             value.ret_if_true.visit(this);
             il.Emit(OpCodes.Br, EndLabel);
             il.MarkLabel(FalseLabel);
             value.ret_if_false.visit(this);
             il.MarkLabel(EndLabel);
+            
         }
 
         private Hashtable range_stmts_labels = new Hashtable();
diff --git a/TestSuite/cast2.pas b/TestSuite/cast2.pas
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f4ec38db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/TestSuite/cast2.pas
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+var i: integer;
+
+procedure p(a: byte);
+begin 
+  i := 1;
+end;
+
+type
+  fb = function: byte;
+
+begin
+  var a: function: byte := ()->2;
+  p(fb(a));
+  assert(i = 1);
+  var b := fb(a);
+  assert(b = 2);
+  assert(fb(a).ToString = 'cast2.fb');
+end.
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