use strict; use warnings; use Inline C => Config => BUILD_NOISY => 1, ; use Inline C =><<'EOC'; unsigned char * foo(unsigned char * name) { if(name) printf("True\n"); else printf("False\n"); return(NULL); } unsigned char * bar() { return (foo(NULL)); } EOC foo(undef); bar(); __END__ Outputs: True False #### # plagiarised from default perl typemap unmapped T_PTR INPUT T_PTR $var = INT2PTR($type,SvIV($arg)) OUTPUT T_PTR sv_setiv($arg, PTR2IV($var)); #### use strict; use warnings; use Inline C => Config => TYPEMAPS => "nullmap.txt", BUILD_NOISY => 1, ; use Inline C =><<'EOC'; typedef unsigned char * unmapped; unmapped foo(unmapped name) { if(name) printf("True\n"); else printf("False\n"); return(NULL); } unsigned char * bar() { return (foo(NULL)); } EOC foo(undef); bar(); __END__ Outputs: False False