Creating a Function with C that returns bytea

List,
    I'm building this function in C that will return a bytea (hopefully) and
cannot get it to return the bytea value.  Am I missing something really
simple


My code is similar to this:

#include <necessary files>
bytea *func() {
    bytea *x = palloc(36);
    // code to load the 36 bytes here
    return x;
}