debuggable

English

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diːˈbʌɡəbəl/, /dɪ-/

• Audio (UK):

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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...

Derived terms

• debuggability
• undebuggable