debuggable

debuggable

English

Etymology

    From debug + -able.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /diːˈbʌɡəbəl/, /dɪ-/
    • Audio (UK):(file)

    Adjective

    debuggable (not comparable)

    1. (computing) That can be debugged.
      • 1997, Robin Burk, David B Horvath, UNIX Unleashed: Internet Edition:
        If the output shows a space name $DEBUG$, the program was compiled as debuggable with the -g option.
      • 2001, Robert D Kent, Todd W Sands, High Performance Computing Systems and Applications:
        In an attempt to detect the problem closer to where it happened, our experts tried to replace the standard malloc with a debuggable version...
    2. (computing) Easy or convenient to debug.
      • 1998, Steven S Skiena, The Algorithm Design Manual:
        Such large-grain, naive parallelism can be simple enough to be readily implementable and debuggable...
      • 2005, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates, Head First Java:
        Your Java programs will be more debuggable and expandable if you use local variables instead of instance variables...

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