(Or "core dump") A
file on
hard disk (traditionally called "core") containing
a copy of the contents of a
process's memory, produced when
a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error or
signal.
Debuggers like
adb and
gdb can load the dump file and
display the information it contains about the state of the
running program. This can be related to the program code,
both
object code and, in a
source-level debugger, the
source code. Information includes the contents of
registers, the call stack and all other program data.