disassembly

noun
/dɪsəˈsɛmbli/UK

Etymology

From dis- + assembly.

  1. derived from asemblee
  2. derived from asemblee
  3. inherited from assemblee
  4. formed as disassembly — “dis- + assembly

Definitions

  1. The process of disassembling.

    • RUD stands for “rapid unscheduled disassembly” – a fancy way to say “crashed.”
    • Across spans of millions of years, mountain ranges tear themselves apart through suicidal erosion. But lately, experts warn, the pace of disassembly has accelerated, stoked by the human-made climate crisis.
  2. The code generated by a disassembler.

    • If you can trace back through the disassembly to where the variable is first loaded into a register, you can often discover its value or its address by inspecting that register.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for disassembly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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