Why my operator<< overload doesn't work and prints out a memory location? [C++]

[Shaitan00]

Im having an issue using my operator<< overload, I am creating a pointer to a ClassA and storing it in a list, then I get the pointer out of my list using an iterator and when I try to cout << (*iterator) I get the address itself, I dont get the actual operator<< overload to execute ...
This is a reduced version of the code to illustrate what I am doing (the full code is kind of very long)...

Ive got a Class A declared as follows:

Header File (A.h)

class A
{
	friend ostream& operator<< ( ostream &, const A & );

private:
	string sRecord;
};

Implementation (A.cpp)

ostream &operator<<( ostream &sout, const A &a )
{
	sout << "Record: " << a.sRecord << endl;
}

Now, this is the calling code from a different class & file:

Implementation (Manager.cpp)

string stringRecord = "Something";
List.push_back(new A(stringRecord));

list<A*>::const_iterator itrA;
itrA = List.begin();

// this is the code that isnt working as expected
// I would exepct this to launch the overloaded operator<< of A but instead it returns (00257200)
cout << (*itrA);

Any clues why this is not working?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,

 

[snarfblam]

Im a little fuzzy on my C++ but I think this is your issue.

Your overload defines an operator << for ostream and &A (reference to A), but in usage, you have an ostream and list<A*>::const_iterator. The two are not the same, and your operator wont be used.

[edit]Or not.[/edit]
I guess the Begin method returns a sort pointer? If this is the case, and you have a list of pointers, then you are still passing an A* instead of an A&, though how you get from A* to A&, Im not sure. Maybe one of these:

&**itrA
**itrA (compiler will convert to a reference?)