heisenbug

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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- /ˈhaɪzənˌbʌɡ/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- /ˈhaɪzənˌbʌɡ/

Definitions of heisenbug word

noun Technical meaning of heisenbug (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug. 1
noun heisenbug (computing) A software bug which fails to manifest itself during debugging; a problem that cannot be diagnosed in the debugger because it does not occur in that environment. 0

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