If you declare a character array as char vbl[n], TotalView automatically changes the type to
$string[n]; that is, a null-terminated, quoted string with a maximum length of
n. This means that TotalView displays an array as a quoted string of
n characters, terminated by a null character. Similarly, TotalView changes
char* declarations to
$string* (a pointer to a null-terminated string).
Since most character arrays represent strings, the TotalView $string type can be very convenient. But if this isn’t what you want, you can change the
$string type back to a
char (or
char[n]), to display the variable as you declared it.