Question about void

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I have look for quite some time and can't find an explation as to what "VOID" means and what is does. Sorry for such a dumb question. Can anyone give a plane simple answer for this old man? Thanks, Carl

2

void by itself indicates nothing. Literally nothing.

void myFunction()
{
  ...
}

is a function which returns nothing.

When it's with a *, as in:

void *myPtr;

or

void *myFunction()
{
  ...
}

the "void *" represents a pointer to (memory address of) a variable (or function, or object, etc) in memory, but of an undefined type.