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.

Answer 2

That's what a core file does already? If you load gdb with the original executable and the core file

gdb myprogram.exe -c mycorefile

Then it'll go to the point at where it crashed. You can use all the normal inspection functionality to view the variables, see the stack trace and so on.

Or have I misunderstood your question?