C Program Stalls or Infinite Loops inside and else statement?

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I have this weird thing happening in my C program which has never happened to me before.

I am calling a void function with a single parameter, the function is very similar to this so you can get the jist:

...
printf("Before Call");
Dumb_Function(a);
printf("After Call");
...

...
void Dumb_Function(int a){
    if(a == null)
    {
    }
    else{
    int i;
    for(i=0; i<a; i++)
    {
        do stuff
    }
    printf("test");
    }
}

This will output

Before Call
test

and NOT "After Call" How is this possible? Why does my function not return? Did my program counter get lost? I can not modify it to a non void function.

When running the cursor will blink and I am able to type, I press CTRL+C to terminate.

Any ideas?

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