warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int *’, but argument 2 has type ‘int’

Question

So I\'m new to C and am having trouble with whats happening with this warning. What does the warning mean and how can i fix it. The code i wrote is here:

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Answer 1

The scanf function takes the address of a variable to put the result into.
Writing scanf("%d", &someVar) will pass the address of the someVar variable (using the & unary operator).
The scanf function will drop a number into the piece of memory at that address. (which contains your variable)

When you write scanf("%d", age), you pass the value of the age variable to scanf. It will try to drop a number into the piece of memory at address 0 (since age is 0), and get horribly messed up.

You need to pass &age to scanf.

You also need to allocate memory for scanf to read a string into name:

char name[100];
scanf("%99s\n", name);