void vs void* (philosophical question)

According to the standard (ISO C99 draft WG14/N1124), void is the
incomplete type that cannot be completed and comprises the empty set of
values. Since it declares the absense of a value can it be considered a
data type?

Regarding void*, is it just a simple reuse of the same keyword (void) or
they have a closer relationship? I could think of only one - a pointer
to an incomplete type. However, if one could say that void is the
absense of a value, how can we have a pointer to something that does not
exist?


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Giannis Papadopoulos
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University of Thessaly
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