diff --git a/contrib/examples/pngtopng.c b/contrib/examples/pngtopng.c
index 4acf6b3ad..d4a51a8f0 100644
--- a/contrib/examples/pngtopng.c
+++ b/contrib/examples/pngtopng.c
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 /*- pngtopng
  *
- * COPYRIGHT: Written by John Cunningham Bowler, 2011.
+ * COPYRIGHT: Written by John Cunningham Bowler, 2011, 2017.
  * To the extent possible under law, the author has waived all copyright and
  * related or neighboring rights to this work.  This work is published from:
  * United States.
  *
+ * Last changed in libpng 1.6.29 [%RDATE%]
+ *
  * Read a PNG and write it out in a fixed format, using the 'simplified API'
  * that was introduced in libpng-1.6.0.
  *
@@ -59,26 +61,27 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
                else
                   fprintf(stderr, "pngtopng: write %s: %s\n", argv[2],
                       image.message);
-
-               free(buffer);
             }
 
             else
-            {
                fprintf(stderr, "pngtopng: read %s: %s\n", argv[1],
                    image.message);
 
-               /* This is the only place where a 'free' is required; libpng does
-                * the cleanup on error and success, but in this case we couldn't
-                * complete the read because of running out of memory.
-                */
-               png_image_free(&image);
-            }
+            free(buffer);
          }
 
          else
+         {
             fprintf(stderr, "pngtopng: out of memory: %lu bytes\n",
                (unsigned long)PNG_IMAGE_SIZE(image));
+
+            /* This is the only place where a 'free' is required; libpng does
+             * the cleanup on error and success, but in this case we couldn't
+             * complete the read because of running out of memory and so libpng
+             * has not got to the point where it can do cleanup.
+             */
+            png_image_free(&image);
+         }
       }
 
       else