diff --git a/src/vm/jvm/QAST/Compiler.nqp b/src/vm/jvm/QAST/Compiler.nqp
index a3be886728..eb2e806312 100644
--- a/src/vm/jvm/QAST/Compiler.nqp
+++ b/src/vm/jvm/QAST/Compiler.nqp
@@ -2064,6 +2064,7 @@ my %const_map := nqp::hash(
     'C_TYPE_LONGLONG',          -5,
     'C_TYPE_SIZE_T',            -6,
     'C_TYPE_BOOL',              -7,
+    'C_TYPE_ATOMIC_INT',        -8,
     'C_TYPE_FLOAT',             -1,
     'C_TYPE_DOUBLE',            -2,
     'C_TYPE_LONGDOUBLE',        -3,