How to get address of a pointer in c/c++?

To get the address of p do:

int **pp = &p;

and you can go on:

int ***ppp = &pp;
int ****pppp = &ppp;
...

or, only in C++11, you can do:

auto pp = std::addressof(p);

To print the address in C, most compilers support %p, so you can simply do:

printf("addr: %p", pp);

otherwise you need to cast it (assuming a 32 bit platform)

printf("addr: 0x%u", (unsigned)pp);

In C++ you can do:

cout << "addr: " << pp;

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