backpatch

English

Etymology

back +‎ patch

Verb

backpatch (third-person singular simple present backpatches, present participle backpatching, simple past and past participle backpatched)

  1. (computing theory) To update (partially compiled code) with jump addresses that were previously left as placeholders because they had not yet been encountered in the source code.
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