Reland of http://crrev.com/241548.

chrome/app/chrome_exe_main_win.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include <windows.h>
 #include <tchar.h>
 
 #include <string>
 
 #include "base/at_exit.h"
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 int APIENTRY wWinMain(HINSTANCE instance, HINSTANCE prev, wchar_t*, int) {
   startup_metric_utils::RecordExeMainEntryTime();
   // Initialize the commandline singleton from the environment.
   CommandLine::Init(0, NULL);
   // The exit manager is in charge of calling the dtors of singletons.
   base::AtExitManager exit_manager;
 
   if (AttemptFastNotify(*CommandLine::ForCurrentProcess()))
     return 0;
 
-  // The purpose of this call is to force the addition of an entry in the IAT
-  // for chrome_elf.dll to force a load time dependency.
-  InitChromeElf();
+  // Signal Chrome Elf that Chrome has begun to start.
+  SignalChromeElf();
 
   MetroDriver metro_driver;
   if (metro_driver.in_metro_mode())
     return metro_driver.RunInMetro(instance, &RunChrome);
   // Not in metro mode, proceed as normal.
   return RunChrome(instance);
 }