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As pointed out in my previous post, debugging on Linux brings a few new twists to those of us used to the Windows debugging landscape. One of these twists is the need to produce a core dump. On Linux a common way to capture a dump is to generate a core dump (gcore, etc.)
You may have experienced an application crash and the user mode, dump capture on Windows. An application crash is commonly associated with the Windows, ”Watson” and Windows Debugger frameworks. The difference is that a core dump generally contains the entire memory of the