Help with a problem regarding dynamic memory and arrays

Code:

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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
  int * myInt = new int;
  long *myLong = new long;
  char* myChar = new char[100];
  float* myFloat = new float[100];
 
  cout << "&myInt's new = " << myInt << ".\n";
  cout << "&myLong's new = " << myLong << ".\n";
  for(int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
  {
      cout << "&myChar's new element [" << i << "] = " << &(myChar[i]) << ".\n";
     
  }
[B]  for(int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
  {
      cout << "&myFloat's new element [" << i << "] = " << myFloat << ".\n";
      myFloat++;
  }
  delete myInt;
  delete myLong;
  delete []myChar;
  delete []myFloat;
 
  return 0;                 
}

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Upon running this program (which is trying to print the addresses of various dynamically allocated variables and arrays), all of the addresses are provided save those belonging to the char array's elements.
Instead of their arrays, lines such as
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO and
ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe are printed in various degrees of truncation. Do these have anything to do with previous contents of the heap?
More importantly, how can I get the source code to print out the addresses properly?

> Do these have anything to do with previous contents of the heap?
Yes.

> More importantly, how can I get the source code to print out the addresses properly?
Unfortunately, it treats a char* as a special case when you try and output a pointer. It assumes it should dereference it and print the string where it points.
You need to cast the pointer to some other type (say void*) to cause the actual pointer value to be printed.

> myFloat++;
You do realise that the value passed to delete is no longer the value returned by new.

The &myChar[i] is of type char *, which is commonly a c string, and will be printed out as if it was a null terminated string. You can cast it to a void pointer (void *). In addition, since you modify myFloat, delete[]'ing it is bad. Make another temporary pointer equal to myFloat.

You don't need to increment myfloat.

Code:

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cout << "&myFloat's new element [" << i << "] = " << &myFloat[i] << ".\n";

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EDIT: Also another way, avoiding the cast, to calculate the addresses of char* is:

Code:

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&myChar + i * sizeof(char)

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I was going to recommend that the op do something nice like this instead.
I don't write nearly as much to the console but I guess that's okay.

Code:

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#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main( ) {
    int *my_int = new int(0);
    long int *my_long = new long int(0);
    float *float_arr = new float[100];
    char *my_cstr = new char[100];

    for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
        float_arr[i] = i + 1.0;


    // we have to copy a string into the array correctly using strncpy
    strncpy(my_cstr, "hello world", sizeof my_cstr);

    cout << "my_int    @ " << &my_int << "\n";
    cout << "my_long  @ " << &my_long << "\n";
    cout << "float_arr @ " << &float_arr << "\n";
    cout << "my_cstr  @ " << &my_cstr << "\n";

    delete my_int;
    delete my_long;
    delete [] my_cstr;
    delete [] float_arr;
}

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Thanks very much for the help everyone. I had no idea that char* behaved this way, but it does describe the seemingly odd output I had been getting.