Why does using the wrong format specifier in C crash my program on Windows 7?

Question

My program is as follows;

#include 
#include 

int main()
{
        char string[] = \"Gentlemen start your engines!\";
                


        

Answer 1

Program crashes because formatting routine tries to access a string at address 0x0000001D which is the result of strlen() where is nothing like a string and likely there's no acessible memory at all.