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Debug vs Debuggable - What's the difference?

debug | debuggable |

As a verb debug

is (computer science) to search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.

As an adjective debuggable is

(computing) that can be debugged.

debug

English

(debugging)

Verb

(debugg)
  • (computer science) To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.
  • (electronics) To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere).
  • (US) To remove insects from (somewhere).

    • Synonyms

    * diagnose * troubleshoot

    Derived terms

    * debugger

    Anagrams

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    debuggable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (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...
  • (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...

    Related terms

    * debuggability