Visual Studio 2019 Unable to use & in watch

I'm trying to get the address of any object, so in the Watch window, I'm prefixing a variable with & and I'm getting the message "Node not supported: '&test'"
ie
string test = "asdf";
...
string test = "ssss";

in Watch window:
Name: test Value: asdf
Name: &test Value: Node not supported:'&test'

I have enabled address-level debugging within VS 2019, as per this post https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/memory-windows?view=vs-2019

Any suggestions would be helpful please.

 

I'm not sure this would affect Unity in any way, since Unity compiles your code before starting to run, using its own internal settings pretty much.

 

I'm wondering if it's because of Unity that it doesn't allow memory visibility

 

Not sure why you want an address in a managed language... but you can pin objects and get their address with System.Runtime.InteropServices, using something like:

Code (csharp):

1.     {
2.         string s = "@kurtdekker";
3.  
4.         Debug.Log( System.String.Format( "str: '{0}'", s));
5.  
6.         GCHandle h = GCHandle.Alloc( s, GCHandleType.Pinned);
7.         try
8.         {
9.             System.IntPtr ptr = h.AddrOfPinnedObject();
10.             Debug.Log( System.String.Format( "ptr: 0x{0:X16}", (System.Int64)ptr));
11.         }
12.         finally
13.         {
14.             if (h.IsAllocated)
15.             {
16.                 h.Free();
17.             }
18.         }
19.     }