core dump

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From dumping the contents of the (now obsolete) core memory out to be read.

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core dump (plural core dumps)

  1. (computing) The recorded state of the memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally.
    • 2010, Michael Kerrisk, The Linux Programming Interface, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 448:
      Certain signals cause a process to create a core dump and terminate (Table 20-1, page 396). A core dump is a file containing a memory image of the process at the time it terminated. (The term core derives from an old memory technology.)

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