diff --git a/library/core/src/num/uint_macros.rs b/library/core/src/num/uint_macros.rs
index d8709d51cccb2..586892758398b 100644
--- a/library/core/src/num/uint_macros.rs
+++ b/library/core/src/num/uint_macros.rs
@@ -2533,15 +2533,20 @@ macro_rules! uint_impl {
         #[doc = concat!("assert_eq!((diff1, diff0), (3, ", stringify!($SelfT), "::MAX));")]
         /// ```
         #[unstable(feature = "bigint_helper_methods", issue = "85532")]
+        #[rustc_const_unstable(feature = "bigint_helper_methods", issue = "85532")]
         #[must_use = "this returns the result of the operation, \
                       without modifying the original"]
         #[inline]
         pub const fn borrowing_sub(self, rhs: Self, borrow: bool) -> (Self, bool) {
             // note: longer-term this should be done via an intrinsic, but this has been shown
             //   to generate optimal code for now, and LLVM doesn't have an equivalent intrinsic
-            let (a, b) = self.overflowing_sub(rhs);
-            let (c, d) = a.overflowing_sub(borrow as $SelfT);
-            (c, b | d)
+            let (a, c1) = self.overflowing_sub(rhs);
+            let (b, c2) = a.overflowing_sub(borrow as $SelfT);
+            // SAFETY: Only one of `c1` and `c2` can be set.
+            // For c1 to be set we need to have underflowed, but if we did then
+            // `a` is nonzero, which means that `c2` cannot possibly
+            // underflow because it's subtracting at most `1` (since it came from `bool`)
+            (b, unsafe { intrinsics::disjoint_bitor(c1, c2) })
         }
 
         /// Calculates `self` - `rhs` with a signed `rhs`