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tracepoint

tracepoint noun: a kind of breakpoint that performs a custom action.

Noun

tracepoint (plural tracepoints)

  1. A kind of breakpoint that performs a custom action.
    • In addition to standard interactive debugging capabilities (display and modification of program variables, setting tracepoints and breakpoints for subprograms, displaying subprogram call stack, and so on), a number of new features were added for VAX Ada.1987, A. Nico Habermann, Ugo Montanari, System Development and Ada, page 42
    • The first thing to notice is that tracepoints have no equivalent to the Trace commands, that is, there is no way to output information in a Release build using tracepoints.2005, Karli Watson, Christian Nagel, Jacob Hammer Pedersen, Beginning Visual C# 2005, page 161

Forms of tracepoint

pluraltracepoints

Origin of tracepoint

From trace + point.

Questions about tracepoint

What does tracepoint mean?
Tracepoint means a kind of breakpoint that performs a custom action.
What part of speech is tracepoint?
Tracepoint is a noun.
What is the plural of tracepoint?
The plural of tracepoint is tracepoints.

Words near tracepoint in the dictionary

  1. tracelessness
  2. tracelet
  3. tracelets
  4. traceological
  5. traceology
  6. tracepoint
  7. tracepoints
  8. tracer
  9. tracer ammunition
  10. tracer bullet
  11. tracer bullets

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