diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog
index 470e446ad5f..c613b398046 100644
--- a/ld/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2021-10-25  Nick Alcock  <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
+
+	* testsuite/ld-ctf/nonrepresentable-member.*: New test.
+
 2021-10-25  Nick Alcock  <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
 
 	* testsuite/ld-ctf/array.d: Change --ctf=.ctf to --ctf.
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-ctf/nonrepresentable-member.c b/ld/testsuite/ld-ctf/nonrepresentable-member.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b3657af01e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-ctf/nonrepresentable-member.c
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+struct blah
+{
+  int boring;
+  int __attribute__((vector_size(8))) foo;
+  const int __attribute__((vector_size(8))) bar;
+  int this_is_printed;
+} wibble __attribute__((__used__));
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-ctf/nonrepresentable-member.d b/ld/testsuite/ld-ctf/nonrepresentable-member.d
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6c76253a8c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-ctf/nonrepresentable-member.d
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#as:
+#source: nonrepresentable-member.c
+#objdump: --ctf
+#ld: -shared
+#name: Nonrepresentable members
+
+.*: +file format .*
+
+Contents of CTF section .ctf:
+
+  Header:
+    Magic number: 0xdff2
+    Version: 4 \(CTF_VERSION_3\)
+#...
+  Types:
+#...
+    0x[0-9a-f]*: \(kind 6\) struct blah .*
+        *\[0x0\] boring: ID 0x[0-9a-f]*: \(kind 1\) int .*
+        *\[0x[0-9a-f]*\] foo: .* \(.*represent.*\)
+        *\[0x[0-9a-f]*\] bar: .* \(.*represent.*\)
+        *\[0x[0-9a-f]*\] this_is_printed: ID 0x[0-9a-f]*: \(kind 1\) int .*
+#...
+
+  Strings:
+#...
diff --git a/libctf/ChangeLog b/libctf/ChangeLog
index 879e128126a..245987fdf42 100644
--- a/libctf/ChangeLog
+++ b/libctf/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2021-10-25  Nick Alcock  <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
+
+	* ctf-types.c (ctf_type_rvisit): Handle nonrepresentable types.
+
 2021-10-25  Nick Alcock  <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
 
 	* ctf-dump.c (ctf_dump_type): Do not abort on error.
diff --git a/libctf/ctf-types.c b/libctf/ctf-types.c
index 243de9348d3..55834856da9 100644
--- a/libctf/ctf-types.c
+++ b/libctf/ctf-types.c
@@ -1641,20 +1641,27 @@ ctf_type_rvisit (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_id_t type, ctf_visit_f *func,
   unsigned char *vlen;
   ssize_t size, increment, vbytes;
   uint32_t kind, n, i = 0;
+  int nonrepresentable = 0;
   int rc;
 
-  if ((type = ctf_type_resolve (fp, type)) == CTF_ERR)
-    return -1;			/* errno is set for us.  */
+  if ((type = ctf_type_resolve (fp, type)) == CTF_ERR) {
+    if (ctf_errno (fp) != ECTF_NONREPRESENTABLE)
+      return -1;		/* errno is set for us.  */
+    else
+      nonrepresentable = 1;
+  }
 
-  if ((tp = ctf_lookup_by_id (&fp, type)) == NULL)
-    return -1;			/* errno is set for us.  */
+  if (!nonrepresentable)
+    if ((tp = ctf_lookup_by_id (&fp, type)) == NULL)
+      return -1;		/* errno is set for us.  */
 
   if ((rc = func (name, otype, offset, depth, arg)) != 0)
     return rc;
 
-  kind = LCTF_INFO_KIND (fp, tp->ctt_info);
+  if (!nonrepresentable)
+    kind = LCTF_INFO_KIND (fp, tp->ctt_info);
 
-  if (kind != CTF_K_STRUCT && kind != CTF_K_UNION)
+  if (nonrepresentable || (kind != CTF_K_STRUCT && kind != CTF_K_UNION))
     return 0;
 
   ctf_get_ctt_size (fp, tp, &size, &increment);