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You just need a binary (with debugging symbols included) that is identical to the one that generated the core dump file. Then you can run gdb path/to/the/binary path/to/the/core/dump/file to debug it. When it starts up, you can use bt (for backtrace) to get a stack trace from the time of the crash.
The usual way to examine data in your program is with the print command (abbreviated p ), or its synonym inspect . It evaluates and prints the value of an expression of the language your program is written in (see section Using GDB with Different Languages).
gdb: show typeinfo of some data.
These should all work in GDB (assuming you compiled with -g):
print sizeof(var)
print sizeof(Type)
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