How to printf a memory address in C

Use the format specifier %p:

printf("variable A is at address: %p\n", (void*)&A);

The standard requires that the argument is of type void* for %p specifier. Since, printf is a variadic function, there’s no implicit conversion to void * from T * which would happen implicitly for any non-variadic functions in C. Hence, the cast is required. To quote the standard:

7.21.6 Formatted input/output functions (C11 draft)

p The argument shall be a pointer to void. The value of the pointer is converted to a sequence of printing characters, in an implementation-defined manner.

Whereas you are using %x, which expects unsigned int whereas &A is of type int *. You can read about format specifiers for printf from the manual. Format specifier mismatch in printf leads to undefined behaviour.

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