The digital fingerprints linking the source code back to Mainsoft were part of a so-called core dump, which is created on some computers for diagnostic purposes in the event of a major failure.
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Although core memory is obsolete, any computer memory is still occasionally called " core "; in particular, a file recording the contents of memory after a system error is usually called a core dump.
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If the user chooses to report the crash, the details ( possibly including a core dump ) will be uploaded to an Ubuntu server ( " daisy . ubuntu . com " ) for analysis.
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In some systems, such as Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, a fatal error causes the operating system to create a log entry or to save an image ( core dump ) of the process.
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For test and debugging purposes, the monitoring program can provide facilities to view and alter registers, memory, and restart location or obtain a mini core dump or print symbolic program names with current data values.
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In order to re-start a program from an arbitrary state you need to create a core dump, which is generally more trouble than it is worth . talk ) 21 : 32, 17 December 2013 ( UTC)
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Smalltalk images are similar to ( restartable ) core dumps and can provide the same functionality as core dumps, such as delayed or remote debugging with full access to the program state at the time of error.
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Smalltalk images are similar to ( restartable ) core dumps and can provide the same functionality as core dumps, such as delayed or remote debugging with full access to the program state at the time of error.
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The term " core dump ", " memory dump ", or just " dump " has also become a jargon to indicate any storing of a large amount of raw data for further examination or other purposes.
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On modern Unix-like operating systems, administrators and programmers can read core dump files using the GNU Binutils Binary File Descriptor library ( BFD ), and the GNU Debugger ( gdb ) and objdump that use this library.
