cout a string gets the address instead of value [duplicate]

Answer 1

You need to use wcout instead of cout for wide characters. Do this:

#ifdef UNICODE
    typedef wchar_t     TCHAR;
    #define TEXT(quote) L##quote
    #define COUT        wcout
#else
    typedef char        TCHAR;
    #define TEXT(quote) quote
    #define COUT        cout
#endif

and then:

TCHAR* test = TEXT("test");
COUT << test;