What is a dump file?

The Dump file is also called a memory dump file or a memory snapshot file. It is a memory image of the process and is used by driver writers to debug driver programs. The dump file contains module information, thread information, stack call information, exception information and other data of the program running.

The operating environment of this tutorial: Windows 7 system, Dell G3 computer.

Dump file, also called memory dump file or memory snapshot file, is a memory image of a process. It is a snapshot of a process or system at a given time, such as when a process crashes or the process has When other problems occur, or even at any time, we can use tools to back up the memory of the system or a certain process for debugging and analysis. The dump file contains module information, thread information, stack call information, exception information and other data of the program running.

You can save the execution status of the program to the dump file through the debugger.

Dump files are used by driver writers to debug driver programs. Such files must be opened with special tool software, such as WinDbg.

After our program is released, the code cannot be traced on the client machine, so the Dump (extension is .dmp) file is particularly important to us. We can reproduce the problem situation through the .dmp file, and then according to the reproduced situation (including stack calls, etc.), we can find the line number corresponding to the problem.

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