“A core represents a the state of a process at a point in time. It contains all the information that an engineer needs in order to inspect the process and its state even after the process has exited. This information includes thread information, mapped memory, register state and more. By using a debugger with the core file, engineers can interact with and inspect the state of the process as if they had attached a debugger to the process at the time when the core file was generated.
Ever wonder what exactly is contained in a core dump and how debuggers interact with them? This post is for you. We will explore how cores are generated and how software interacts with them…”
http://backtrace.io/blog/blog/2015/10/03/whats-a-coredump/
