renumberer

renumberer

English

Etymology

renumber +‎ -er

Noun

renumberer (plural renumberers)

1. (computing, dated) A program that renumbers lines of code in another program (for example, to allow insertion of further lines between them).
   • 1980, Byte (volume 5)

     Bit Bucket software tor the Atari including disassembler, renumberer, character generator […]

   • 1982, InfoWorld (volume 4, number 29, 26 July 1982, page 41)

     A 260-line program, which took other renumberers between two and four minutes to renumber, took the Monkey Wrench only eight seconds.

   • 1983, Owen Neville Bishop, Henry Budgett, Simple interfacing projects

     Programmed with a utility such as a program line editor or a renumberer, the EPROM leaves the whole of your RAM free to hold the program on which you are working.