Question

To the down-voters: I understand that this was a poorly constructed question. If you’ll scroll down to the answers, you’ll see that I discovered the source of the problem. While the question itself might not be helpful, I hope the answer will help somebody experiencing similar trouble with operator overloading. The problem was what it was; I cannot identify any edits or revisions that would make this a better question. Therefore, if you’re going to submit a down-vote, please add a constructive comment as well. Thank you.

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I’m running the following code

myObject o = myObject();
cout << o << endl;

My (friend) << operator is overloaded here:

ostream& operator << (ostream& s, myObject o)
{
    s << doStuff(o, s) << endl;
    return s;
}

Expected output:

object contents

Actual output is, for some reason, including the memory address:

5452ED48object contents

Why?

Answer 1

Sorry for not providing enough detail. It turned out that I should have done this:

doStuff(o, s);
return s;

Apparently I was appending the desired output to s, which already contained the address.