After getting user inputs the last printf() is not printing at all - c

Question

Struggling on my homework assignment.
After I give inputs it stops rather than doing the random array and last print if anyone can help I would appreciate it
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main() {
char name, color;
int age;
int *poer = &age;
char *p = &name;
char *ptr = &color;
printf("What is your name?\n");
scanf(" %s", &name);
printf("How old are you??\n");
scanf(" %d", &age);
printf("What is your favorite color?\n");
scanf(" %s", &color);
char *story[5] = {"old volkswagen beetle", "singlet", "quater", "left sock",
"blackberry bold ninek"};
srand(time(0));
printf("My pal right here %s is %d years old I feel like we have been coding"
" together for a hundred years now I always wonder where the time has gone"
" One thing I have wanted to know is why they love "
"their %s %s so much I guess I might never know\n",
name, age, color, story[rand() % 5]);
return 0;
}

Answer 1

Plenty of errors can be caught by enabling the compiler warnings.
Here is the list of all problems with their proper solutions:
For this line:
srand(time(0));
You need to include the time.h library, otherwise, you will get an implicit definition of time() error message. Passing NULL to time() is a good practice.
As people figured out:
char name, color;
A single char-type cannot hold more than a single ASCII character. Thus, you need to formulate a sequence of characters, called character array. In C99, variable-length arrays are supported. Still, using a macro constant for defining string lengths during compile-time makes the code good. Replace it:
#define MAX_LENGTH 128 // Prefer your length
...
char name[MAX_LENGTH], color[MAX_LENGTH];
In the similar lines:
printf("What is your name?\n");
scanf(" %s", &name);
scanf() function stops reading further input after whitespace. For example, if you input: John Doe, the name will only store John, Doe becomes truncated. Also, never put an ampersand sign for a char-array in scanf().
fgets() is considered safer than this, since it accepts a limited number of characters defined in its second argument. Replace the scanf():
// ... , sizeof name, ... --- is also applicable here
if (fgets(name, MAX_LENGTH, stdin) == NULL) {
// Do something when input's invalid
}
// Input is okay
Note: The fgets() leaves a trailing newline character as soon as it stops receiving user input. To discard this, use this after its usage:
name[strcspn(name, "\n")] = 0;
After applying all these changes, you will not get any further problems.

Answer 2

the following code will be fine
char name[256];
char color[256];
int age;
printf("What is your name?\n");
scanf(" %s", name);
printf("How old are you??\n");
scanf(" %d", &age);
printf("What is your favorite color?\n");
scanf(" %s", color);
in your code, a char was casted to char* the variable will hold data larger than it could. the the stack was ruined

Answer 3

You used char for string which is wrong. You need a char array to store the strings.
Try this:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<time.h>
#define STR_MAX 300
int main()
{
char name[STR_MAX];
char color[STR_MAX];
int age;
printf("What is your name?\n");
scanf(" %s", name);
printf("How old are you??\n");
scanf(" %d", &age);
printf("What is your favorite color?\n");
scanf(" %s", color);
char *story[5] = {"old volkswagen beetle","singlet","quater","left sock","blackberry bold ninek"};
srand(time(0));
printf("My pal right here %s is %d years old I feel like we have been coding together for a hundred years now I always wonder where the time has gone One thing I have wanted to know is why they love their %s %s so much I guess I might never know\n",name, age, color, story[rand()%5]);
return 0;
}

Answer 4

your program terminated abnormally because stack was ruined.
char name; //has only 1 byte space
char color; //has only 1 byte space
but these two variables was used to hold data larger than they can. then data was written to some place else which will cause the stack overflow.
code like this will be ok
char name[256];
char color[256];