Make base::TerminateBecauseOutOfMemory call RaiseException on Windows.

base/process/memory_win.cc

Index: base/process/memory_win.cc
diff --git a/base/process/memory_win.cc b/base/process/memory_win.cc
index 9d75efecacb21af8e9afbb857a1b560fa6c3f171..bf0c2c2e3c5bb0a691481dbbdea429bfb83e2850 100644
--- a/base/process/memory_win.cc
+++ b/base/process/memory_win.cc
@@ -32,23 +32,31 @@ namespace {
 #pragma warning(disable: 4702)
 
 int OnNoMemory(size_t size) {
+  // Custom exception code chosen to indicate an out of memory error.
+  // See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/het71c37.aspx.
+  // "To make sure that you do not define a code that conflicts with an existing
+  // exception code" ... "The resulting error code should therefore have the
+  // highest four bits set to hexadecimal E."
+  // 0xe0000008 was chosen arbitrarily as 0x00000008 is ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY.
+  const DWORD kOomExceptionCode = 0xe0000008;

[Mark Mentovai, 2016/07/21 21:15:11]

Now you’ve got to update the comment in Breakpad to point to this file. :)

+
   // Kill the process. This is important for security since most of code
   // does not check the result of memory allocation.
   // https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/het71c37.aspx
-  ::RaiseException(win::kOomExceptionCode, EXCEPTION_NONCONTINUABLE, 0,
-                   nullptr);
+  ::RaiseException(kOomExceptionCode, EXCEPTION_NONCONTINUABLE, 0, nullptr);
   // Safety check, make sure process exits here.
-  _exit(win::kOomExceptionCode);
+  _exit(kOomExceptionCode);
   return 0;
 }
 
 #pragma warning(pop)
 
-// HeapSetInformation function pointer.
-typedef BOOL (WINAPI* HeapSetFn)(HANDLE, HEAP_INFORMATION_CLASS, PVOID, SIZE_T);
-
 }  // namespace
 
+void TerminateBecauseOutOfMemory(size_t size) {
+  OnNoMemory(size);
+}
+
 void EnableTerminationOnHeapCorruption() {
   // Ignore the result code. Supported on XP SP3 and Vista.
   HeapSetInformation(NULL, HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption, NULL, 0);