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From: Andrea Austa <aausta@athena.polito.it>
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Subject: Can functions return NULL value?
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Can a function, written in C, return a NULL value?
I would like write code like this:

	text * getnull (text * t)
	{
		return NULL;
	}

but it doesn't work, the backend terminates abnormally.

Thanks a lot


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                 Andrea Austa - aausta@athena.polito.it
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