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