core dump
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of core dump
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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The process of grovelling through a core dump or hex image in an attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
If necessary, they would cut the cables, and gravity would expeditiously return the control rods to the reactor, thereby averting yet another kind of core dump.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
"Another core dump -- looks like the program jumped off to hyperspace somehow."
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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