diff --git a/src/share/vm/c1/c1_Canonicalizer.cpp b/src/share/vm/c1/c1_Canonicalizer.cpp
index ba9f324d58502f0f3d72cfc0ead1943b6ba736ef..4158ce5cb3b2d0b6b92d0ccf9eb58c643015b942 100644
--- a/src/share/vm/c1/c1_Canonicalizer.cpp
+++ b/src/share/vm/c1/c1_Canonicalizer.cpp
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ void Canonicalizer::do_Intrinsic      (Intrinsic*       x) {
       if (t->is_klass()) {
         // substitute cls.isInstance(obj) of a constant Class into
         // an InstantOf instruction
-        InstanceOf* i = new InstanceOf(t->as_klass(), x->argument_at(1), x->state());
+        InstanceOf* i = new InstanceOf(t->as_klass(), x->argument_at(1), x->state_before());
         set_canonical(i);
         // and try to canonicalize even further
         do_InstanceOf(i);