diff --git a/Include/internal/pycore_global_objects.h b/Include/internal/pycore_global_objects.h
index 0bf84ee26866ee..88cdc92e1ac029 100644
--- a/Include/internal/pycore_global_objects.h
+++ b/Include/internal/pycore_global_objects.h
@@ -12,10 +12,6 @@ extern "C" {
 #define _PY_NSMALLPOSINTS           257
 #define _PY_NSMALLNEGINTS           5
 
-// _PyLong_GetZero() and _PyLong_GetOne() must always be available
-#if _PY_NSMALLPOSINTS < 2
-#  error "_PY_NSMALLPOSINTS must be greater than 1"
-#endif
 
 
 // Only immutable objects should be considered runtime-global.
diff --git a/Include/internal/pycore_long.h b/Include/internal/pycore_long.h
index 58e00baee78108..299988d6b385b7 100644
--- a/Include/internal/pycore_long.h
+++ b/Include/internal/pycore_long.h
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ extern PyStatus _PyLong_InitTypes(PyInterpreterState *);
 
 #define _PyLong_SMALL_INTS _Py_SINGLETON(small_ints)
 
+// _PyLong_GetZero() and _PyLong_GetOne() must always be available
+#if _PY_NSMALLPOSINTS < 2
+#  error "_PY_NSMALLPOSINTS must be greater than 1"
+#endif
+
 // Return a borrowed reference to the zero singleton.
 // The function cannot return NULL.
 static inline PyObject* _PyLong_GetZero(void)