diff --git a/CHANGES.current b/CHANGES.current
index d5f8277ec..2a84fef23 100644
--- a/CHANGES.current
+++ b/CHANGES.current
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Version 1.3.32 (in progress)
 ============================
 
+04/16/2007: olly
+	    [PHP5] Fix how zend_throw_exception() is called (bug #1700785).
+
 04/10/2007: olly
 	    Define SWIGTEMPLATEDISAMBIGUATOR to template for aCC (reported on
 	    swig-user that this is needed).
diff --git a/Lib/exception.i b/Lib/exception.i
index 51b767268..e30ac1a5d 100644
--- a/Lib/exception.i
+++ b/Lib/exception.i
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
 #if PHP_MAJOR_VERSION < 5
 # define SWIG_exception(code, msg) { zend_error(E_ERROR, msg); }
 #else
-# define SWIG_exception(code, msg) { zend_throw_exception(NULL, msg, code TSRMLS_CC); }
+# include "zend_exceptions.h"
+# define SWIG_exception(code, msg) { zend_throw_exception(NULL, (char*)msg, code TSRMLS_CC); }
 #endif
 %}
 #endif