How to get a pointer from a reference?

Question

There seems to be many relavent questions talking about pointer vs. reference, but I couldn't find what I want to know. Basically, an object is passed in by a reference:

funcA(MyObject &objRef) { ... } 

Within the function, can I get a pointer to that object instead of the reference? If I treat the reference objRef as an alias to the MyObject, would &objRef actually give me a pointer to the MyObject? It doesn't seem likely. I am confused.

Edit: Upon closer examination, objRef does give me back the pointer to object that I need - Most of you gave me correct info/answer, many thanks. I went along the answer that seems to be most illustrative in this case.

Answer 1

Yes, applying the address-of operator to the reference is the same as taking the address of the original object.

#include <iostream>  struct foo {};  void bar( const foo& obj ) {   std::cout << &obj << std::endl; }  int main() {   foo obj;   std::cout << &obj << std::endl;   bar( obj );    return 0; } 

Result:

0x22ff1f 0x22ff1f