English edit

Etymology edit

debug +‎ -able

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): [diːˈbʌɡəbəɫ], [diːˈbʊɡəbəɫ]
  • (file)

Adjective edit

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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