diff --git a/docs/how-to/hip_runtime_api/error_handling.rst b/docs/how-to/hip_runtime_api/error_handling.rst
index fd4e5aa38a..4c7b977728 100644
--- a/docs/how-to/hip_runtime_api/error_handling.rst
+++ b/docs/how-to/hip_runtime_api/error_handling.rst
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ A complete example demonstrating error handling:
   int main()
   {
       constexpr int N = 100;
-      float        *device_pointer;
+      float *device_pointer;
 
       // Allocate memory on the device
       HIP_CHECK(hipMalloc(&device_pointer, N * sizeof(float);));