Locking the Address
Sometimes you want only to freeze the address, not the data at that address. Do this by selecting the View > Lock Address command. Figure 124 shows two Variable Windows, one of which has had its address locked.
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Freezing the address lets you continually reevaluate what is at that address as execution progresses. Here are two situations where you might want to do this:
You need to look at a heap address access through a set of dive operations rooted in a stack frame that has become stale. You dive on a *this pointer to see the actual value after *this goes stale.
