diff --git a/foreign/c/pointer.scm b/foreign/c/pointer.scm
index 16ed729..5cde6ec 100644
--- a/foreign/c/pointer.scm
+++ b/foreign/c/pointer.scm
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
   (lambda (c-bytevector)
     (display c-bytevector)
     (newline)
-    (when (c-null? c-bytevector)
+    #;(when (c-null? c-bytevector)
       (error "Can not turn null pointer into string" c-bytevector))
     (let ((size (c-strlen c-bytevector)))
       (utf8->string (c-bytevector->bytevector c-bytevector size)))))