diff --git a/src/liblzma/api/lzma/memlimit.h b/src/liblzma/api/lzma/memlimit.h
index 26ec50fe..6f782899 100644
--- a/src/liblzma/api/lzma/memlimit.h
+++ b/src/liblzma/api/lzma/memlimit.h
@@ -92,6 +92,16 @@ extern size_t lzma_memlimit_get(const lzma_memlimit *mem);
 extern size_t lzma_memlimit_used(const lzma_memlimit *mem);
 
 
+/**
+ * \brief       Gets the number of allocations owned by the memory limitter
+ *
+ * The count does not include the helper structures; if no memory has
+ * been allocated with lzma_memlimit_alloc() or all memory allocated
+ * has been freed or detached, this will return zero.
+ */
+extern size_t lzma_memlimit_count(const lzma_memlimit *mem);
+
+
 /**
  * \brief       Allocates memory with malloc() if memory limit allows
  *
diff --git a/src/liblzma/common/memory_limitter.c b/src/liblzma/common/memory_limitter.c
index 19cdefc2..0983c82e 100644
--- a/src/liblzma/common/memory_limitter.c
+++ b/src/liblzma/common/memory_limitter.c
@@ -85,6 +85,25 @@ lzma_memlimit_used(const lzma_memlimit *mem)
 }
 
 
+extern LZMA_API size_t
+lzma_memlimit_count(const lzma_memlimit *mem)
+{
+	// This is slow; we could have a counter in lzma_memlimit
+	// for fast version. I expect the primary use of this
+	// function to be limited to easy checking of memory leaks,
+	// in which this implementation is just fine.
+	size_t count = 0;
+	const lzma_memlimit_list *record = mem->list;
+	
+	while (record != NULL) {
+		++count;
+		record = record->next;
+	}
+	
+	return count;
+}
+
+
 extern LZMA_API void
 lzma_memlimit_end(lzma_memlimit *mem, lzma_bool free_allocated)
 {