CD> To print the _value_of_the_pointer_, cast the pointer to a void*
CD>  cout << (void*)aPtr;  //generates something like 0x5423:3212
It amazes me that after I have declaired aPtr to be a pointer that I
wouldn't have to dereference it if printing it's contents.  In light of
that I would think that it would keep outputing characters until (if
you're lucky) it came across a NULL and that byte were still somewhere
legal to print.  Is this the only situation that you know of where such
a cast is necessary?
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