pointers seg faulting

Im trying to get some simple functions going but this keeps seg faulting on me. Ive tried it in a few ways with no luck, tried IRC with no luck either(lower life forms).

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>


int main() {
        char test[] = "123TEST456";
        char *result;
       
        get_variable(test, result);
        printf("\n\t%s\n", result); /* crashes here with: result, *result and &result */
        free(result);
         
        return 0;
       
}

int get_variable(char *src, char *dest) {
        dest = malloc(100); /* just for now */
       
        copy(src, dest, 3, 7);
        printf("get_variable dest = %s\n", dest);

        return 0;
}


int copy(char *src, char *dest, int start, int end) {
          int x = start;
        int y = 0;
       
        while( x < (end + 1) ) {
                dest[y] = src[x];
       
                ++y;
                                ++x;
        }
       
        dest[y] = (char)NULL;

        return 0;
}

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man, talk about slow preview times...

Run this:

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>

void foo(char *p)
{
    p = (char*)1;
}//foo

int main ()
{
    char *p = (char*)0;

    printf("p before call: %d\n", p);
    foo(p);
    printf("p after call: %d\n", p);

    return 0;
}//main

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Do the same with the value of result before and after the call to get_variable.

gg