diff --git a/src/constant.rs b/src/constant.rs
index 0ba163f50aec..6454c5398caf 100644
--- a/src/constant.rs
+++ b/src/constant.rs
@@ -490,6 +490,11 @@ fn define_all_allocs(tcx: TyCtxt<'_>, module: &mut dyn Module, cx: &mut Constant
 }
 
 /// Used only for intrinsic implementations that need a compile-time constant
+///
+/// All uses of this function are a bug inside stdarch. [`eval_mir_constant`]
+/// should be used everywhere, but for some vendor intrinsics stdarch forgets
+/// to wrap the immediate argument in `const {}`, necesitating this hack to get
+/// the correct value at compile time instead.
 pub(crate) fn mir_operand_get_const_val<'tcx>(
     fx: &FunctionCx<'_, '_, 'tcx>,
     operand: &Operand<'tcx>,
diff --git a/src/intrinsics/simd.rs b/src/intrinsics/simd.rs
index 5972d9c6f6b3..0d5410c1351a 100644
--- a/src/intrinsics/simd.rs
+++ b/src/intrinsics/simd.rs
@@ -268,10 +268,8 @@ pub(super) fn codegen_simd_intrinsic_call<'tcx>(
             let val = codegen_operand(fx, &val.node);
 
             // FIXME validate
-            let idx_const = if let Some(idx_const) =
-                crate::constant::mir_operand_get_const_val(fx, &idx.node)
-            {
-                idx_const
+            let idx_const = if let Some(idx_const) = idx.node.constant() {
+                crate::constant::eval_mir_constant(fx, idx_const).0.try_to_scalar_int().unwrap()
             } else {
                 fx.tcx.dcx().span_fatal(span, "Index argument for `simd_insert` is not a constant");
             };
@@ -304,22 +302,12 @@ pub(super) fn codegen_simd_intrinsic_call<'tcx>(
                 return;
             }
 
-            let idx_const = if let Some(idx_const) =
-                crate::constant::mir_operand_get_const_val(fx, &idx.node)
-            {
-                idx_const
+            let idx_const = if let Some(idx_const) = idx.node.constant() {
+                crate::constant::eval_mir_constant(fx, idx_const).0.try_to_scalar_int().unwrap()
             } else {
-                fx.tcx.dcx().span_warn(span, "Index argument for `simd_extract` is not a constant");
-                let trap_block = fx.bcx.create_block();
-                let true_ = fx.bcx.ins().iconst(types::I8, 1);
-                let ret_block = fx.get_block(target);
-                fx.bcx.ins().brif(true_, trap_block, &[], ret_block, &[]);
-                fx.bcx.switch_to_block(trap_block);
-                crate::trap::trap_unimplemented(
-                    fx,
-                    "Index argument for `simd_extract` is not a constant",
-                );
-                return;
+                fx.tcx
+                    .dcx()
+                    .span_fatal(span, "Index argument for `simd_extract` is not a constant");
             };
 
             let idx = idx_const.to_u32();