diff --git a/src/bitops.c b/src/bitops.c
index 46eee22c3..7ab72633c 100644
--- a/src/bitops.c
+++ b/src/bitops.c
@@ -654,8 +654,11 @@ void bitopCommand(client *c) {
 
         /* Fast path: as far as we have data for all the input bitmaps we
          * can take a fast path that performs much better than the
-         * vanilla algorithm. */
+         * vanilla algorithm. On ARM we skip the fast path since it will
+         * result in GCC compiling the code using multiple-words load/store
+         * operations that are not supported even in ARM >= v6. */
         j = 0;
+        #ifndef __arm__
         if (minlen >= sizeof(unsigned long)*4 && numkeys <= 16) {
             unsigned long *lp[16];
             unsigned long *lres = (unsigned long*) res;
@@ -716,6 +719,7 @@ void bitopCommand(client *c) {
                 }
             }
         }
+        #endif
 
         /* j is set to the next byte to process by the previous loop. */
         for (; j < maxlen; j++) {