c++ - Displaying the address of a string

Question

I have this code:

char* hello = "Hello World";
std::cout << "Pointer value = " << hello << std::endl;
std::cout << "Pointer address = " << &hello << std::endl;

And here is the result:

Pointer value = Hello World
Pointer address = 0012FF74

When I debug to my program using OllyDbg, I see that the value of 0x0012FF74 is e.g. 0x00412374.

Is there any way I can print the actual address that hello points to?

Answer 1

If you use &hello it prints the address of the pointer, not the address of the string. Cast the pointer to a void* to use the correct overload of operator<<.

std::cout << "String address = " << static_cast<void*>(hello) << std::endl;