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Core dump

In computing, a core dump, memory dump, crash dump, storage dump, system dump, or ABEND dump consists of the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has crashed or otherwise terminated abnormally. In practice, other key pieces of program state are usually dumped at the same time, including…

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Space missions

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Core dump

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related to Space missions · 7
Core dump → CPU, Deep Space, However, Space Mission, The, The NASA Voyager, The Voyager
related to Analysis · 5
Core dump → Depending, GNU, In, One, There
related to background · 2
Core dump → Earliest, The
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Core dump → Core, On

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dump core dumps memory systems system program operating may also debugging storage os process ipcs use used files windows space

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the values of processor registersinstance ofalong with other information0.80text
program counterinstance ofalong with other information0.80text
system flagsinstance ofalong with other information0.80text
and other information useful in determining the root cause of the crashinstance ofalong with other information0.80text
elfdump on Unixinstance ofor analysed with specialised tools0.80text
Unix-like systemsinstance ofor analysed with specialised tools0.80text
objdumpinstance ofor analysed with specialised tools0.80text
kdump on Linuxinstance ofor analysed with specialised tools0.80text
IPCSinstance ofor analysed with specialised tools0.80text
early versions of Unix did not support attaching debuggers to running processesinstance ofSome operating systems0.80text
so core dumps were necessary to run a debugger on a process's memory contents.Core dumps can be used to capture data freed during dynamic memory allocationinstance ofSome operating systems0.80text
may thus be used to retrieve information from a program that is no longer runninginstance ofSome operating systems0.80text

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