From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: Printing Pointer Address - cout (gxx version 2.7.2.1)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:24:16 +0200
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Rick Umali wrote:
[...]
> Now I have figured out that replacing lines like this:
> 
>  18     cout << "&pAge:\t" << &pAge << "\n";
> 
> with:
> 
>  18     cout << "&pAge:\t" << (int) &pAge << "\n";
> 
> causes the printing of what looks to be an address, but
> I'm curious why my pointers don't print. Why do I have to do
> a cast to get the address?
> 
> (I didn't down load source to find this answer for myself.)

Because you stumbled over a long lasting bug in libiostream. 
Prepend a << hex << to the cast to get something that 
really looks like a pointer. AFAIK, Robert is working on a
newer version. 

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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