A core dumpis the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at aspecific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally(crashed). In practice, other key pieces of program state are usuallydumped at the same time, including the processor registers, which mayinclude the program counter and stack pointer, memory managementinformation, and other processor and operating system flags andinformation. The name comes from the once-standard memory technologycore memory. Core dumps are often used to diagnose or debug errors incomputer programs.
On many operatingsystems, a fatal error in a program automatically triggers a core dump,and by extension the phrase "to dump core" has come to mean, in manycases, any fatal error, regardless of whether a record of the programmemory is created.
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