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How to dump memory to a file in gdb (osx)? Need to rescue my work

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Mar 15, 202615119 views
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I need to know how I can dump memory in Safari.app, to a file. I've entered gdb attach 6741 (my safari PID). Now what? I tried searching for help on gdb on google, but I couldn't find anything that told me what to do, even when searching for "how to dump memory in gdb" :( I tried "help dump", it ga…

Error Output

(gdb) dump memory ~/safaridump.bin 0
Missing stop address.

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I found how to generate a coredump on OSX! Link There is a downloadable program there, in source form. I downloaded it, compiled it, and, hooray! It worked! It generated an almost 1GB core dump! Whether or not the information is in there doesn't qui…

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