diff -r 000000000000 -r 6474c204b198 build/win32/crashinjectdll/crashinjectdll.cpp
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/build/win32/crashinjectdll/crashinjectdll.cpp	Wed Dec 31 06:09:35 2014 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <windows.h>
+
+// make sure we only ever spawn one thread
+DWORD tid = -1;
+
+DWORD WINAPI CrashingThread(
+  LPVOID lpParameter
+)
+{
+  // not a very friendly DLL
+  volatile int* x = (int *)0x0;
+  *x = 1;
+  return 0;
+}
+
+BOOL WINAPI DllMain(
+  HANDLE hinstDLL,
+  DWORD dwReason,
+  LPVOID lpvReserved
+)
+{
+  if (tid == -1)
+    // we have to crash on another thread because LoadLibrary() will
+    // catch memory access errors and return failure to the calling process
+    CreateThread(
+                 nullptr,                // default security attributes
+                 0,                      // use default stack size
+                 CrashingThread,         // thread function name
+                 nullptr,                // argument to thread function
+                 0,                      // use default creation flags
+                 &tid);                  // returns the thread identifier
+  return TRUE;
+}