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adb: absolute debugger

Starting adb with a core image file

Core image files, resulting from fatal system errors can be examined through adb. Core image files contain the contents of the CPU registers, stack, and memory areas of the program at the time the error occurred.

To examine a core image file with its corresponding program, provide both the core and the program file names. If no corefile name is provided, adb searches for the default core image file core in the current directory and uses it regardless of whether or not it belongs to the program. If the default core image file is used adb will issue a warning that the core image file does not match the object file. In the following example the programfile is the filename of the program causing the error and corefile is the filename of the core image file generated by the system:

adb programfile corefile

To prevent adb from opening the default core image file, use a hyphen (-) in place of the core filename. For example:

   adb sample -

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