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symbolicate

verb

Etymology

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

  1. derived from σύμβολον
  2. derived from symbolus
  3. derived from symbole
  4. formed as symbolic — “symbol + -ic”
  5. formed as symbolicate — “symbolic + -ate”

Definitions

  1. To replace memory addresses with symbols (names of methods, classes etc.) in a stack…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA