Expand "$null" in typemaps in C backend too

This is used in some exception-related typemaps, both in SWIG itself
(although they're not used with C backend currently) and outside of it.

Doc/Manual/C.html

@@ -607,6 +607,10 @@ Finally, the return value variable is returned.
 return result;
 </pre></div>
 
+Note that typemaps may use <tt>$null</tt> special variable which will be
+replaced with either <tt>0</tt> or nothing, depending on whether the function
+has a non-void return value or not.
+
 <H4>The Proxy</H4>
 Compared to the wrapper code generation, the header code is very simple.</br>
 Basically it contains just the declarations corresponding to the definitions

Source/Modules/c.cxx

@@ -1026,8 +1026,13 @@ public:
             }
        }
 
-       if (!is_void_return)
+       if (is_void_return) {
+	 Replaceall(wrapper->code, "$null", "");
+       } else {
+	 Replaceall(wrapper->code, "$null", "0");
+
          Append(wrapper->code, "return result;\n");
+       }
 
        Append(wrapper->code, "}\n");