diff --git a/docs/examples/certinfo.c b/docs/examples/certinfo.c
index de2e310..92bf588 100644
--- a/docs/examples/certinfo.c
+++ b/docs/examples/certinfo.c
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
  *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
  *                             / __| | | | |_) | |
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, 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
  * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html.
  *
@@ -54,28 +54,23 @@ int main(void)
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CERTINFO, 1L);

     res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

     if(!res) {
-      union {
-        struct curl_slist    *to_info;
-        struct curl_certinfo *to_certinfo;
-      } ptr;
+      struct curl_certinfo *certinfo;

-      ptr.to_info = NULL;
+      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CERTINFO, &certinfo);

-      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CERTINFO, &ptr.to_info);
-
-      if(!res && ptr.to_info) {
+      if(!res && certinfo) {
         int i;

-        printf("%d certs!\n", ptr.to_certinfo->num_of_certs);
+        printf("%d certs!\n", certinfo->num_of_certs);

-        for(i = 0; i < ptr.to_certinfo->num_of_certs; i++) {
+        for(i = 0; i < certinfo->num_of_certs; i++) {
           struct curl_slist *slist;

-          for(slist = ptr.to_certinfo->certinfo[i]; slist; slist = slist->next)
+          for(slist = certinfo->certinfo[i]; slist; slist = slist->next)
             printf("%s\n", slist->data);

         }
       }