http://codereview.chromium.org/8676/diff/1/3
File src/platform-win32.cc (right):

http://codereview.chromium.org/8676/diff/1/3#newcode786
Line 786: abort();
On 2008/10/28 22:15:57, sgjesse wrote:
> On 2008/10/28 21:45:38, Nicolas Sylvain wrote:
> > AFAIK abort is not going to work in the sandbox because it tries to
display a
> > message box, and that does not work in the sandbox.   When is
OS::Abort()
> > called? Is it considered a fatal failure? If so, we need to be sure
that it
> > generates a crash and breakpad catches it.
>
> You are right that in a Windows application abort() by default puts up
a message
> box whereas it in a console application will print a message before it
exits the
> program with exit code 3 skipping most at_exit processing.
>
> OS::Abort is called by default by V8 when there is a fatal error e.g.
out of
> memory condition. Through the V8 API a fatal error handler can be
registered,
> and in http://codereview.chromium.org/8838 I updated the fatal error
handler
> added by Chrome to ensure a crash making Chrome independant of
whatever default
> fatal error handling V8 supplies.
>
> I will add calls to _set_abort_behavior to make abort() totally
silent.

I will also clean up the comment in OS::Abort which is now void and
confusing in a non Chrome context.

http://codereview.chromium.org/8676

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