diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8b833370114..0d6edf25c77 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
 
 - Core:
   . Added validation of class names in the autoload process. (Dmitry)
+  . Fixed invalid C code in zend_strtod.c. (Lior Kaplan)
   . Fixed bug #66041 (list() fails to unpack yielded ArrayAccess object).
     (Nikita)
   . Fixed bug #65764 (generators/throw_rethrow FAIL with
diff --git a/Zend/zend_strtod.c b/Zend/zend_strtod.c
index d6e5ccf9604..4546614cfdf 100644
--- a/Zend/zend_strtod.c
+++ b/Zend/zend_strtod.c
@@ -267,8 +267,7 @@ BEGIN_EXTERN_C()
 
 #if defined(IEEE_LITTLE_ENDIAN) + defined(IEEE_BIG_ENDIAN) + defined(VAX) + \
 		    defined(IBM) != 1
-	Exactly one of IEEE_LITTLE_ENDIAN IEEE_BIG_ENDIAN, VAX, or
-	IBM should be defined.
+#error "Exactly one of IEEE_LITTLE_ENDIAN IEEE_BIG_ENDIAN, VAX, or IBM should be defined."
 #endif
 
 	typedef union {