1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/examples/getinmemory.c b/docs/examples/getinmemory.c
index f5e8942f8..a21a2aafc 100644
--- a/docs/examples/getinmemory.c
+++ b/docs/examples/getinmemory.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -42,13 +42,14 @@ WriteMemoryCallback(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
   size_t realsize = size * nmemb;
   struct MemoryStruct *mem = (struct MemoryStruct *)userp;
 
-  mem->memory = realloc(mem->memory, mem->size + realsize + 1);
-  if(mem->memory == NULL) {
+  char *ptr = realloc(mem->memory, mem->size + realsize + 1);
+  if(ptr == NULL) {
     /* out of memory! */
     printf("not enough memory (realloc returned NULL)\n");
     return 0;
   }
 
+  mem->memory = ptr;
   memcpy(&(mem->memory[mem->size]), contents, realsize);
   mem->size += realsize;
   mem->memory[mem->size] = 0;