Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> The original programmer with access to the sourcecode *can* deduce data 
>>> from it.
> 
>> I seriously doubt it...
> 
>   Why?
> 
>   What do you think the core file is for?

A last-ditch attempt to do something useful?

I mean, if you're the guy who designed the inside of the C compiler and 
knows the exact instruction scheduling algorithm that it uses *and* you 
somehow have access to the source code version of the program *and* you 
understand the exact execution path that lead to this point *and* you're 
a super-expert in extremely low-level programming *and* you have insane 
amounts of time available... yeah, theoretically you might possibly be 
able to glean a few tiny bits of info from it. But really, for anything 
other than a HelloWorld program, you're not going to get much of use out 
of it. (Heck, the crash probably isn't even anywhere near where the bug 
is...)

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