From 27fb88f866d3b242c7e7aba7a4886356c1252f6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Partho Bhattacharya <moroseui@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:21:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] updated branch to not crash due to getType issue

---
 src/symbol_table.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/symbol_table.c b/src/symbol_table.c
index cb6a311..35e99de 100644
--- a/src/symbol_table.c
+++ b/src/symbol_table.c
@@ -472,11 +472,11 @@ TableNode *CreateEntry(SymbolTable *table, TableNode *typeOf, char *id,
 char *getType(TableNode *tn) {
 	if(tn == NULL){
 		printf("passed a NULL table entry to getType\n");
-		return NULL;
+		return tn;
 	}
 	if(tn->theType == NULL){
 		printf("type of entry is currently NULL, undefined type \n");
-		return NULL;
+		return tn;
 	}
 	 return tn->theType->theName; }
 char *getName(TableNode *tn) { return tn->theName; }