diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/mir/rvalue.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/mir/rvalue.rs
index cbbb0196890fd..ef34be96dbe70 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/mir/rvalue.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/mir/rvalue.rs
@@ -649,7 +649,17 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx, Bx: BuilderMethods<'a, 'tcx>> FunctionCx<'a, 'tcx, Bx> {
                 OperandRef { val: OperandValue::Immediate(static_), layout }
             }
             mir::Rvalue::Use(ref operand) => self.codegen_operand(bx, operand),
-            mir::Rvalue::Repeat(..) => bug!("{rvalue:?} in codegen_rvalue_operand"),
+            mir::Rvalue::Repeat(ref elem, len_const) => {
+                // All arrays have `BackendRepr::Memory`, so only the ZST cases
+                // end up here. Anything else forces the destination local to be
+                // `Memory`, and thus ends up handled in `codegen_rvalue` instead.
+                let operand = self.codegen_operand(bx, elem);
+                let array_ty = Ty::new_array_with_const_len(bx.tcx(), operand.layout.ty, len_const);
+                let array_ty = self.monomorphize(array_ty);
+                let array_layout = bx.layout_of(array_ty);
+                assert!(array_layout.is_zst());
+                OperandRef { val: OperandValue::ZeroSized, layout: array_layout }
+            }
             mir::Rvalue::Aggregate(ref kind, ref fields) => {
                 let (variant_index, active_field_index) = match **kind {
                     mir::AggregateKind::Adt(_, variant_index, _, _, active_field_index) => {
@@ -1019,12 +1029,10 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx, Bx: BuilderMethods<'a, 'tcx>> FunctionCx<'a, 'tcx, Bx> {
             mir::Rvalue::NullaryOp(..) |
             mir::Rvalue::ThreadLocalRef(_) |
             mir::Rvalue::Use(..) |
+            mir::Rvalue::Repeat(..) | // (*)
             mir::Rvalue::Aggregate(..) | // (*)
             mir::Rvalue::WrapUnsafeBinder(..) => // (*)
                 true,
-            // Arrays are always aggregates, so it's not worth checking anything here.
-            // (If it's really `[(); N]` or `[T; 0]` and we use the place path, fine.)
-            mir::Rvalue::Repeat(..) => false,
         }
 
         // (*) this is only true if the type is suitable
diff --git a/tests/codegen/repeat-operand.rs b/tests/codegen/repeat-operand.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6464b35ddcad3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/codegen/repeat-operand.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+//@ compile-flags: -Copt-level=1 -Cno-prepopulate-passes
+
+// This test is here to hit the `Rvalue::Repeat` case in `codegen_rvalue_operand`.
+// It only applies when the resulting array is a ZST, so the test is written in
+// such a way as to keep MIR optimizations from seeing that fact and removing
+// the local and statement altogether. (At the time of writing, no other codegen
+// test hit that code path, nor did a stage 2 build of the compiler.)
+
+#![crate_type = "lib"]
+
+#[repr(transparent)]
+pub struct Wrapper<T, const N: usize>([T; N]);
+
+// CHECK-LABEL: define {{.+}}do_repeat{{.+}}()
+// CHECK-NEXT: start:
+// CHECK-NOT: alloca
+// CHECK-NEXT: ret void
+// CHECK-LABEL: define {{.+}}do_repeat{{.+}}(i32 noundef %x)
+// CHECK-NEXT: start:
+// CHECK-NOT: alloca
+// CHECK-NEXT: ret void
+#[inline(never)]
+pub fn do_repeat<T: Copy, const N: usize>(x: T) -> Wrapper<T, N> {
+    Wrapper([x; N])
+}
+
+// CHECK-LABEL: @trigger_repeat_zero_len
+#[no_mangle]
+pub fn trigger_repeat_zero_len() -> Wrapper<u32, 0> {
+    // CHECK: call void {{.+}}do_repeat{{.+}}(i32 noundef 4)
+    do_repeat(4)
+}
+
+// CHECK-LABEL: @trigger_repeat_zst
+#[no_mangle]
+pub fn trigger_repeat_zst() -> Wrapper<(), 8> {
+    // CHECK: call void {{.+}}do_repeat{{.+}}()
+    do_repeat(())
+}