-/**
- * Return the libvlc internal object, the main object that all other depend on.
- * Any of of this function should be considered an ugly hack and avoided at all
- * cost. E.g. you need to expose some functionality that is not provided by the
- * libvlc API directly with libvlccore.
- * Remember to release the object with vlc_object_release( obj* )
- *
- * \param p_instance the libvlc instance
- */
-VLC_PUBLIC_API struct vlc_object_t *libvlc_get_vlc_instance(libvlc_instance_t *);
-
-/**
- * Frees an heap allocation (char *) returned by a LibVLC API.
- * If you know you're using the same underlying C run-time as the LibVLC
- * implementation, then you can call ANSI C free() directly instead.
- */
-VLC_PUBLIC_API void libvlc_free( void *ptr );
-