Revert "Remove libvlc_free"

[vlc] / include / vlc / libvlc.h

diff --git a/include/vlc/libvlc.h b/include/vlc/libvlc.h
index 8541768ff5f03c7b71e9d68eca7e4e950aec86b0..5b8c265f51c2403afc9f1d1f5869f2f8ed4e718d 100644 (file)
--- a/include/vlc/libvlc.h
+++ b/include/vlc/libvlc.h
@@ -226,6 +226,14 @@ VLC_PUBLIC_API const char * libvlc_get_compiler(void);
  */
 VLC_PUBLIC_API const char * libvlc_get_changeset(void);
 
+/**
+ * Frees an heap allocation returned by a LibVLC function.
+ * 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.
+ *
+ * \param ptr the pointer
+ */
+VLC_PUBLIC_API void libvlc_free( void *ptr );
 
 /** \defgroup libvlc_event LibVLC asynchronous events
  * LibVLC emits asynchronous events.