Why it is possible to assign string to character pointer in C but not an integer value to an integer pointer

Question

why in the below code int *p = 22 will give compile time error and ptr will print the value successfully .

int main()
{

/*taking a character pointer and ass         


        

Answer 1

This line assigns the memory address to be 22. This is incorrect. While this line will compile with only a warning, it will crash your program at runtime when you try to access memory address 22 later in the code.

int *p = 22 ; //incorrect

This will give you the result you're looking for:

int *p = NULL;
int val = 22;
p = &val;

Also

printf("%d",p); //incorrect and give compile time error.
printf("%d",*p); //you must derefence the pointer

%s takes a pointer to char, where it is a null terminated string, while %d takes an int, not an int*.