Output a stream to the screen?

[sepoto]

Here's some code below. I want to spit out 'query' to the screen so I can check it. I don't have a fancy debugger installed yet like I am used to using on Windows7. Nor am I familiar with Linux programming very well yet. That's why I ask so many questions:

int outputToImport(const char* tbl_name, const char* output, mysqlpp:onnection* pconn) {
std::ostringstream query;
query << "TRUNCATE TABLE " << tbl_name;
printf(query);<----- ????????????????????????
}

I just tried
std::cout << query << std::endl;

and got:

0x43143124312

I also tried this:

some hex output to my screen. That's not it.

---------- Post added at 10:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:53 PM ----------

I also tried this and get a segmentation fault:

#include </usr/include/mysql++/mysql++.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string.h>
using namespace std;


int outputToImport(const char* tbl_name, const char* output, mysqlpp:onnection* pconn) {
char* query;
strcpy(query,"TRUNCATE TABLE ");
std::cout << query << std::endl;
}



int main()
{
mysqlpp:onnection conn(false);

if (conn.connect("dsgsports","127.0.0.1" , "root", "")) {
printf("Connected to database.\n");
}
else {
printf("Failed to connect to database.");
return 1;
}
outputToImport("aa","aa", &conn);
return 0;
}