sanitizer
nounUS /ˈsænɪtaɪzɚ/
Etymology From sanitize + -er.
1
Agent Agent noun of sanitize; one who sanitizes; a product that provides a sanitized result.
- hand sanitizer
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Software A program to detect errors in code, usually integrated into a compiler.
- memory sanitizer
- Sanitizers have been available for a while with the Clang compiler and were later also introduced into the GCC toolset.2018, Radovan Bast, Roberto Di Remigio, CMake Cookbook: Building, testing, and packaging modular software with modern CMake, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 218: