TotalView User Guide : Part II: Debugging Tools and Tasks : Examining and Editing Data and Program Elements : Displaying Variables : Locking the Address
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 100 shows two Variable Windows, one of which has had its address locked.
 
Figure 100: 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.