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> My understanding is that the runtime images which you are talking
> about are just like object files.

Why wouldn't an in-memory execution image be a corefile type?  It
can't be *that* different than an on-disk execution image.  GDB treats
the two similarly, bfd should too.

And, as a bonus, it's actually in core!  ;-)