Fatal Core Dump – A debugging murder mystery played with GDB

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Debugging a crash can sometimes feel like a noir detective story: following faint clues, chasing red herrings, and eventually hitting the moment where the whole case finally makes sense. I leaned into that idea and built Fatal Core Dump, a small game where the investigation is real crash debugging.The game gives you a Linux binary, its core dump, a source file, and some logs. You solve the mystery by debugging it.The premise: an engineer dies when an airlock on an asteroid mining station opens unexpectedly. Your job is to determine whether it was a simple software bug or something more deliberate.The investigation uses real debugging tools and techniques. You can use whatever debugging setup

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