diff --git a/lib/std/process.zig b/lib/std/process.zig
index 86654e4b5a1daadc37b64eee01e8f15d46f59038..eca3a26c298a08eb1caa7423cb9e8a10058489d0 100644
--- a/lib/std/process.zig
+++ b/lib/std/process.zig
@@ -2032,3 +2032,9 @@ pub fn createWindowsEnvBlock(allocator: mem.Allocator, env_map: *const EnvMap) !
     i += 1;
     return try allocator.realloc(result, i);
 }
+
+/// Logs an error and then terminates the process with exit code 1.
+pub fn fatal(comptime format: []const u8, format_arguments: anytype) noreturn {
+    std.log.err(format, format_arguments);
+    exit(1);
+}
diff --git a/lib/std/zig.zig b/lib/std/zig.zig
index 230dc45ddcbd450ae815176d4403843cfe49459f..01d3aafa759958288482dcd0493c06d367e88dc1 100644
--- a/lib/std/zig.zig
+++ b/lib/std/zig.zig
@@ -667,10 +667,8 @@ pub fn parseTargetQueryOrReportFatalError(
     };
 }
 
-pub fn fatal(comptime format: []const u8, args: anytype) noreturn {
-    std.log.err(format, args);
-    std.process.exit(1);
-}
+/// Deprecated; see `std.process.fatal`.
+pub const fatal = std.process.fatal;
 
 /// Collects all the environment variables that Zig could possibly inspect, so
 /// that we can do reflection on this and print them with `zig env`.