diff --git a/cJSON.c b/cJSON.c
index a09b4693ea8f31370d97440581828347e8dbc72a..f7bed44db1d3117013b4ab4cf05c53bfd90451c4 100644
--- a/cJSON.c
+++ b/cJSON.c
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ static char *print_object(cJSON *item,int depth,int fmt,printbuffer *p)
 int    cJSON_GetArraySize(cJSON *array)							{cJSON *c=array->child;int i=0;while(c)i++,c=c->next;return i;}
 cJSON *cJSON_GetArrayItem(cJSON *array,int item)				{cJSON *c=array->child;  while (c && item>0) item--,c=c->next; return c;}
 cJSON *cJSON_GetObjectItem(cJSON *object,const char *string)	{cJSON *c=object->child; while (c && cJSON_strcasecmp(c->string,string)) c=c->next; return c;}
-int *cJSON_HasObjectItem(cJSON *object,const char *string)	{
+int cJSON_HasObjectItem(cJSON *object,const char *string)	{
 	cJSON *c=object->child;
 	while (c )
 	{
diff --git a/cJSON.h b/cJSON.h
index cc3993da38e43c1c1d4436df3f3ca526ccce8c1c..a3221d1545ffdbf39bbe64778a952e7be30cb75c 100644
--- a/cJSON.h
+++ b/cJSON.h
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ extern int	  cJSON_GetArraySize(cJSON *array);
 extern cJSON *cJSON_GetArrayItem(cJSON *array,int item);
 /* Get item "string" from object. Case insensitive. */
 extern cJSON *cJSON_GetObjectItem(cJSON *object,const char *string);
-extern int *cJSON_HasObjectItem(cJSON *object,const char *string);
+extern int cJSON_HasObjectItem(cJSON *object,const char *string);
 /* For analysing failed parses. This returns a pointer to the parse error. You'll probably need to look a few chars back to make sense of it. Defined when cJSON_Parse() returns 0. 0 when cJSON_Parse() succeeds. */
 extern const char *cJSON_GetErrorPtr(void);