[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8074860: Structured Exception Catcher missing around CreateJavaVM on Windows

[Frederic Thevenet]

Hi,

This is a backport of [JDK-8082592](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8082592) which adds Structured Exception Handling (SEH) to guard 'JNI_CreateJavaVM' on Windows.

The motivation for this backport is to help reduce the number of occurences where a VM might crash will terminate VM immediately without writing an error log Windows, making root cause analysis very difficult in such cases.

In addition, I plan to also backport [JDK-8186199](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8186199) as a follow-up, which does something similar to guard 'JNI_DestroyJavaVM'.

Thanks!

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Commit messages:
 -  8074860: Structured Exception Catcher missing around CreateJavaVM on Windows

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/449/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk8u-dev&pr=449&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8074860
  Stats: 57 lines in 5 files changed: 19 ins; 32 del; 6 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/449.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev.git pull/449/head:pull/449

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/449