diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.h b/target/i386/cpu.h
index ff26351538..85319f4ae1 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.h
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.h
@@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@ struct X86CPU {
     } mwait;
 
     /* Features that were filtered out because of missing host capabilities */
-    uint32_t filtered_features[FEATURE_WORDS];
+    FeatureWordArray filtered_features;
 
     /* Enable PMU CPUID bits. This can't be enabled by default yet because
      * it doesn't have ABI stability guarantees, as it passes all PMU CPUID