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 177 shows two Variable Windows, one of which has had its address locked.

 

Figure 177: Locked and Unlocked Variable Windows

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.