he following program with struct student, which has name and age. There is a pointer to struct student *ptr, but does not assign a value to it. Then, there is a print statement for ptr->age.  1. Why does an error occur when the program is run?

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In the following program with struct student, which has name and age.
There is a pointer to struct student *ptr, but does not assign a value to it.
Then, there is a print statement for ptr->age.
 1. Why does an error occur when the program is run?
 
#include <stdio.h>
 
//make struct student
struct student
{
charname[25];
int age;

};

int main()
{
//declare pointer to struct student
struct student *ptr;
 
//print ptr -> age
printf("%d", ptr->age);
return0;
}
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