diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 92ffd01b..13303e3f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 nanoflann 1.4.4: UNRELEASED
  * Macros to avoid conflicts with X11 symbols.
+ * Inline an auxiliary example function in case users want to use it and include the file in multiple translation units (Closes [#182](https://github.com/jlblancoc/nanoflann/issues/182)).
  
 nanoflann 1.4.3: Released Jul 24, 2022
  * Added flag SkipInitialBuildIndex to allow not wasting time building a tree when it will be loaded from a file later on ([PR #171](https://github.com/jlblancoc/nanoflann/pull/171)).
diff --git a/examples/utils.h b/examples/utils.h
index 530c90af..7a5000a0 100644
--- a/examples/utils.h
+++ b/examples/utils.h
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ void generateRandomPointCloud_Orient(
     }
 }
 
-void dump_mem_usage()
+inline void dump_mem_usage()
 {
     FILE* f = fopen("/proc/self/statm", "rt");
     if (!f) return;