symbolicate

English

Etymology

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

Verb

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

  1. (computing) To replace memory addresses with symbols (names of methods, classes etc.) in a stack trace, to aid in debugging.
    Synonym: deobfuscate
    • 2011, Rob Napier, Mugunth Kumar, iOS 5 Programming Pushing the Limits, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 163:
      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.
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