diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5df0b8ae3ab..439db8e37af 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## **[Unreleased]**
 
+- [#1006](https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/1006) Fix minor panic issue when `wasmer::compile_with` called with llvm backend
 - [#1009](https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/1009) Enable LLVM verifier for all tests, add new llvm-backend-tests crate.
 
 ## 0.11.0 - 2019-11-22
diff --git a/lib/llvm-backend/src/state.rs b/lib/llvm-backend/src/state.rs
index 0d46dc5c099..fde5eb52e40 100644
--- a/lib/llvm-backend/src/state.rs
+++ b/lib/llvm-backend/src/state.rs
@@ -240,12 +240,12 @@ impl State {
         &self,
         n: usize,
     ) -> Result<&[(BasicValueEnum, ExtraInfo)], BinaryReaderError> {
-        self.stack
-            .get(self.stack.len() - n..)
-            .ok_or(BinaryReaderError {
-                message: "invalid value stack",
-                offset: -1isize as usize,
-            })
+        let new_len = self.stack.len().checked_sub(n).ok_or(BinaryReaderError {
+            message: "invalid value stack",
+            offset: -1isize as usize,
+        })?;
+
+        Ok(&self.stack[new_len..])
     }
 
     pub fn popn_save_extra(