player_control: allocate getPlayerErrorStr() result

This lets us eliminate the static fixed-size buffer.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/player_control.h b/src/player_control.h
index 0cc3c73a..9cf5b137 100644
--- a/src/player_control.h
+++ b/src/player_control.h
@@ -122,6 +122,11 @@ enum player_state getPlayerState(void);
 
 void clearPlayerError(void);
 
+/**
+ * Returns the human-readable message describing the last error during
+ * playback, NULL if no error occurred.  The caller has to free the
+ * returned string.
+ */
 char *getPlayerErrorStr(void);
 
 enum player_error getPlayerError(void);