NextGen TotalView for HPC User Guide : PART II Debugging Tools and Tasks : Chapter 6 Examining and Editing Data : The Data View : Editing an Expression : Dereferencing a Pointer
Dereferencing a Pointer
When you dive on a variable, it is not dereferenced automatically. To dereference it so you can see its target, edit the expression. For example, for this pointer to a string:
Double-click in the Name column to make the text editable, and then dereference the pointer:
The Data View displays the variable’s value:
For argv, i.e. a pointer to a pointer, dereference it twice.