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symbolicate

symbolicate verb: to replace memory addresses with symbols (names of methods, classes etc.) in a stack trace, to aid in debugging.

Verb

symbolicate (third-person singular simple present symbolicates, present participle symbolicating, simple past and past participle symbolicated)

  1. To replace memory addresses with symbols (names of methods, classes etc.) in a stack trace, to aid in debugging.
    • Xcode generally does a good job of automatically symbolicating the reports (replacing addresses with method names) in Organizer as long as you keep the .dSYM for every binary you ship.2011, Rob Napier, Mugunth Kumar, iOS 5 Programming Pushing the Limits, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 163
    Synonyms:
    deobfuscate

Synonyms of symbolicate

Forms of symbolicate

third-person singular presentsymbolicates
present participlesymbolicating
past participlesymbolicated
pastsymbolicated

Origin of symbolicate

From symbolic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about symbolicate

What does symbolicate mean?
Symbolicate means to replace memory addresses with symbols (names of methods, classes etc.) in a stack trace, to aid in debugging.
What part of speech is symbolicate?
Symbolicate is a verb.
What is the past tense of symbolicate?
The past tense of symbolicate is symbolicated.

Words near symbolicate in the dictionary

  1. symbolic logics
  2. symbolic speech
  3. symbolical
  4. symbolically
  5. symbolicalness
  6. symbolicate
  7. symbolicated
  8. symbolicates
  9. symbolicating
  10. symbolication
  11. symbolicism

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