#include <iostream>

int
main(int argc, char** argv){
  char a = 'a';
  char* aptr = &a;
  std::cout << aptr << " : " << a << std::endl;
  return 0;
}

when I compile the code using g++, it gives me the output:

a : a

but when I compile using g++, it gives me the output:

a�w�� : a

what I think is that the values ahead of ‘a’ in the output of the clang compile are garbage values.

One more thing, a pointer should store the memory address if I am not wrong. Then why, in this case when I print the memory address of the char, it gives me the character itself?

I am using wsl and these are the compiler versions that I used to compile the code:

Ubuntu clang version 18.1.3 (1)

g++ (Ubuntu 13.2.0-23ubuntu4) 13.2.0