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[Format] C Data Interface: clarify nullability of buffer pointers #14805

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In apache/arrow-nanoarrow#76 it was reported that some implementations may export zero-length buffers as a null pointer in the ArrowArray structure.

Given that this seems to be an accepted behavior in several implementations, we should probably make it explicitly legal in the C Data Interface spec.

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