An complete and exact copy of the contents of a computer core{9}, usually produced as a file when some serious error occurs in the execution of a computer program, and used for debugging the program which produced the error.
A full account of a person's knowledge on some specific topic, usually produced in response to a question of some kind. It is a mildly deprecatory term, suggesting that the person producing the account was unable to prepare a more concise and understandable summary of the information; as, I just need the essentials, not a core dump.
This is something different from the definition of core on this page. This is a file or printout generated at the time of a program terminating event, reflecting the state of memory from the application's point of view. These should be, in general, things that the application developer would prefer not to generate. However, the unexpected is often encountered.
An image of a terminated process saved for debugging. A core file is created under the name core in the current directory of the process when an abnormal event occurs that results in the process's termination.
In UNIX systems, when a program crashes, it "dumps" out an image of the memory and registers so that you may go through and see what caused the problem. See also Core Memory.
A core image of an executing program that is deposited in a file after the program aborted execution. The core dump (also called a core file) may contain information that is useful in debugging the aborted program.
These basically exist in UNIX. When a UNIX system crashes, it records the entire state of the system into a file on disk. Needless to say, they take up a lot of space. If you knew what you were doing, and knew about the programs in question, you could theoretically figure out why the system crashed. I have never actually seen someone do this.
(computer science) dump of the contents of the chief registers in the CPU
a file containing the contents of memory at the time a program or computer crashed
a file containing the status of the program's memory space and the programs context status at the time it crashed
a file generated by the kernel ( if allowed ) which contains the registers, and all active pages of the program which has crashed
a full copy of the router's memory image
an image of memory that Novell Engineering can analyze
a snapshot of the execution of a program at the moment it is aborted by the operating system (e
a snapshot of your program's state when it crashed and could be a few MBs large
A process by which the current state of a program is preserved in a file. Core dumps are usually associated with programs that have encountered an unexpected, system-detected fault, such as a Segmentation Fault, or severe user error. The current program state is needed for the programmer to diagnose and correct the problem.
Core dump allows offline, post-mortem, analysis of actors or processes that are killed by exceptions.
A core dump is the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally (crashed). In practice, other key pieces of program state are usually dumped at the same time, including the processor registers, which may include the program counter and stack pointer, memory management information, and other processor and operating system flags and information. The name comes from the once-standard memory technology core memory.
