Restoring program state from a core file

Question

Is it possible, under any circumstances, to restore the state of a program to what it was during the generation of a core file?

The reason I ask is that in order to take

Answer 1

It is theoretically possible to do exactly what you want, but (AFAICT) there is no support for this in GDB (yet).

Your best bet is to use GDB-7.0 and use its embedded python scripting to re-implement the serialization function.