walkback
See also: walk back
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editwalkback (plural walkbacks)
- (programming) A stack trace.
- 1990, NASA Tech Briefs, page 98:
- AdaRAID supports multiple CPUs running concurrently, Ada data types, features include break points, watchpoints, timing, tracing, stepping, walkbacks, and histories of last n executions.
- 1992, UNIX Review, volume 10, page 42:
- Walkbacks, inspectors, and debuggers are the heart of Smalltalk's debugging facilities. Walkbacks are displayed when Smalltalk detects an error or a breakpoint. The debugger offers many tools for detecting and correcting code errors.