Do you have plenty of memory? Then load the core dump into the 
interpreter simulator, set its start/end address correctly, call 
saveImageFile.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

David Farber wrote:
> Does anyone on the list know if it is possible to reconstruct an image 
> from a core dump?  The core file is in standard ELF format.  My data is 
> clearly in there, but I don't know enough about ELF to know how to 
> re-stitch everything together.  And would a re-stitched image be usable 
> (i.e. valid)?
> 
> If that approach simply won't work, does any one have any 
> ideas/suggestions on how I can go about retrieving object data directly 
> from the core dump itself.  There are three Collections worth of data 
> (we're talking 10s of kilobytes, less than 500 individual ojects) that I 
> need to retrieve.
> 
> Yeah, I *really* need to get this data.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> -- 
> David Farber
> dfarber at numenor.com
> 
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