Quoting Aspertame Man <aspertame...@att.net>:
Back in the 1970's when we ran fortran on an IBM machine we had this really powerful command called CALL FDUMP that if inserted into a program would send the names and values of every variable, at the time of its call, to a printer or file. In my opinion this was much more useful at times than a symbolic debugger, in scientific number crunching applications.
I don't see how this would be better than dumping core and resuming execution.
I suppose you might even do a fork before dumping core, that might speed up if you have multiple CPU cores and copy-on-write memory semantics.
