In many cases, an outright crash can give the software developer the opportunity to attach a debugger or collect important information, such as a core dump or stack trace, to diagnose the root cause of the error.
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Distro-independent while deployed only on Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions, ABRT Automated Bug-Reporting Tool, intercepts core dumps from applications and ( after user-confirmation ) sends bug reports to various bug-tracking systems, such as Fedora Bugzilla.
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Many operating systems provide features to kernel developers and end-users to actually create a snapshot of the physical memory for either debugging ( core dump or Blue Screen of Death ) purposes or experience enhancement ( Hibernation ( computing ) ).
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On many operating systems, a fatal error in a program automatically triggers a core dump; by extension the phrase " to dump core " has come to mean, in many cases, any fatal error, regardless of whether a record of the program memory results.
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The console typewriter was a modified Model B1, which typed at only 10 characters per second . ( This typewriter had a very'nasty'habit of breaking off its " 0 " hammer and throwing it across the room in the middle of a long core dump .)
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Using the information provided by the assertion failure ( such as the location of the failure and perhaps a stack trace, or even the full program state if the environment supports core dumps or if the program is running in a debugger ), the programmer can usually fix the problem.
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Some programmers write software with "'error reporting "'features that collect details that may be helpful in fixing the problem, and display those details on the screen, or store them to a file such as a core dump, or in some cases an phone home and email those details to the programmers.
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George Tenet, the director of central intelligence, uses it to mean " open, " as in his core dump of 5 million pages of old classified documents : " It reflects my commitment to be as forward-leaning as possible in releasing information that with the passage of time no longer needs to be protected ."
