Unhandled exception handling changes in Vista

2009 (0x7D9) - The Year of Debugging

Microsoft describes the reason behind these changes: silent process death if thread stack is corrupt. In Vista such crashes will be reported to MS via Windows Error Reporting mechanism.

Presentation, Reliability and Recovery, slide 42

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