Address of a reference

Question

So I am having a discussion with a friend about reference and pointers.

What we got talking about is \"you can take an address of a pointer but you cant take an addr

Answer 1

C++ Standard n3337 § 8.3.2/4

It is unspecified whether or not a reference requires storage (3.7).

So this is unspecified whether reference has storage. Most probably not. It is just alias. When you use it in the code it follows that special operations are taken by compiler, it might do some things similar to pointer operations.