It returns a pointer to a private data structure, so there's no sensible use for it. Also, the emergence of 64 bit processors means that the return value isn't wide enough to represent values in the native heap. (cherry picked from commit f8f09a15a409f373f22aa475bb0defd264088e4f) Change-Id: I9c9b5bae6db8638e65dda60f924aa3dddd06813a