diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 63d1596eba4..9bdbb4b172f 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2020-08-28  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+	PR 26460
+	* config/tc-ia64.c (parse_operands): Don't access past end of
+	idesc->operands.
+
 2020-08-26  Mark Wielaard  <mark@klomp.org>
 
 	* as.c (parse_args): Handle bad -gdwarf options.
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-ia64.c b/gas/config/tc-ia64.c
index f827e459df2..0e60416f1b2 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-ia64.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-ia64.c
@@ -6098,8 +6098,10 @@ parse_operands (struct ia64_opcode *idesc)
     {
       if (i < NELEMS (CURR_SLOT.opnd))
 	{
-	  sep = parse_operand_maybe_eval (CURR_SLOT.opnd + i, '=',
-					  idesc->operands[i]);
+	  enum ia64_opnd op = IA64_OPND_NIL;
+	  if (i < NELEMS (idesc->operands))
+	    op = idesc->operands[i];
+	  sep = parse_operand_maybe_eval (CURR_SLOT.opnd + i, '=', op);
 	  if (CURR_SLOT.opnd[i].X_op == O_absent)
 	    break;
 	}