diff --git a/compiler/mips/insts.lisp b/compiler/mips/insts.lisp
index 06897ed52735af714bb54b138df78903f175c27b..e810550687810d97ffa36c686feea233aee95755 100644
--- a/compiler/mips/insts.lisp
+++ b/compiler/mips/insts.lisp
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 ;;; contact Scott Fahlman (Scott.Fahlman@CS.CMU.EDU).
 ;;; **********************************************************************
 ;;;
-;;; $Header: /Volumes/share2/src/cmucl/cvs2git/cvsroot/src/compiler/mips/insts.lisp,v 1.4 1990/02/07 00:25:45 ch Exp $
+;;; $Header: /Volumes/share2/src/cmucl/cvs2git/cvsroot/src/compiler/mips/insts.lisp,v 1.5 1990/02/09 12:56:53 wlott Exp $
 ;;; 
 ;;; Assembler instruction definitions for the MIPS R2000.
 ;;;
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
   (let* ((2comp (component-info component))
 	 (constants (ir2-component-constants 2comp))
 	 (num-consts (length constants)))
-    (* 4 num-consts))) ; ### need constant offset here
+    (ash num-consts word-shift)))
 
 
 ;;; COMPUTE-CODE-FROM-FN