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debuggable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (UK) audio
  • /dɪ-/
  • /diːˈbʌɡəbəl/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English bug English debug Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English debuggable From debug + -able.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That can be debugged.
    • In an attempt to detect the problem closer to where it happened, our experts tried to replace the standard malloc with a debuggable version... 2001, Robert D Kent, Todd W Sands, High Performance Computing Systems and Applications:
    • If the output shows a space name $DEBUG$, the program was compiled as debuggable with the -g option. 1997, Robin Burk, David B Horvath, UNIX Unleashed: Internet Edition:
  2. (not-comparable) Easy or convenient to debug.
    • Your Java programs will be more debuggable and expandable if you use local variables instead of instance variables... 2005, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates, Head First Java:
    • Such large-grain, naive parallelism can be simple enough to be readily implementable and debuggable... 1998, Steven S Skiena, The Algorithm Design Manual:

Deriveds

debuggability · undebuggable