The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.

9.2 Using the crash Debugger

The crash utility allows you to analyze the state of the Oracle Linux system while it is running or of a core dump that resulted from a kernel crash. crash has been merged with the GNU Debugger gdb to provide source code debugging capabilities.