memory dump
RECORD OF MEMORY AT THE EXACT MOMENT A COMPUTER PROGRAM CRASHES, IS TERMINATED OR EXPLICITLY REQUESTS A DUMP
Core file; Core Dump; Memory dump; Coredump; Dumpfile; Dump file; Crash dump; Vmcore; Minidump; Crashdump; Dump core; Storage dump
<
programming, operating system, jargon> (Or "core
dump") A
file on
hard disk (traditionally called "core") containing
a copy of
the contents of a
process's memory, produced when
a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error or
signal.
Debuggers like
adb and
gdb can load
the dump file and
display
the information it contains about
the state of
the
running program. This can be related to
the program code,
both
object code and, in a
source-level debugger,
the
source code. Information includes
the contents of
registers,
the call stack and all other program data.
(2007-05-09)