Is void a data type in C?

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Void is considered a data type (for organizational purposes), but it is basically a keyword to use as a placeholder where you would put a data type, to represent “no data”.

Hence, you can declare a routine which does not return a value as:

void MyRoutine();

But, you cannot declare a variable like this:

void bad_variable;

However, when used as a pointer, then it has a different meaning:

void* vague_pointer;

This declares a pointer, but without specifying which data type it is pointing to.

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