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What is the use of core dump?
A core dump or a crash dump is a memory snapshot of a running process. A core dump can be automatically created by the operating system when a fatal or unhandled error (for example, signal or system exception) occurs. Alternatively, a core dump can be forced by means of system-provided command-line utilities.
What is a core dump process?
In computing, a core dump, memory dump, crash dump, system dump, or ABEND dump consists of the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has crashed or otherwise terminated abnormally.
Why is it called core dump?
Core dumps are generated when the process receives certain signals, such as SIGSEGV, which the kernels sends it when it accesses memory outside its address space. Typically that happens because of errors in how pointers are used. That means there’s a bug in the program. The core dump is useful for finding the bug.
What is the core dump and how you can resolve the core dump issue?
It can be resolved by having a base condition to return from the recursive function. A pointer must point to valid memory before accessing it.
How to debug a GDB core dump file?
You just need a binary (with debugging symbols included) that is identical to the one that generated the core dump file. Then you can run gdb path/to/the/binary path/to/the/core/dump/file to debug it. When it starts up, you can use bt (for backtrace) to get a stack trace from the time of the crash.
Why does GDB not produce a core file?
If an application crashes and doesn’t produce a core file it is probably because of the limit settings you can check and enable core dumps by using the following “ulimit -c” if it outputs a 0 it will not produce a core. You can use “ulimit -c unlimited” to make the core dump file size unlimited.
Why does GDB have to be an executable?
Coming to your question, the reason that gdb requires executable is because it doesn’t simulate the execution, by reading and interpreting the binary instructions like valgrind does instead it becomes the parent of the process so as to control the behavior of the process during run time.
How to get GDB to run from the same file?
Use the file command to get both symbol table and program to run from the same file. symbol-file with no argument clears out GDB information on your program’s symbol table. The symbol-file command causes GDB to forget the contents of its convenience variables, the value history, and all breakpoints and auto-display expressions.