V8 crash on Windows Server 2012 x64 running on CPU with AVX support

[pit3k]

• Version: 4.4.5 (also occurs on 6.2.1)
• Platform: Windows Server 2012 x64 running on E5-2623 v3 CPU
• Subsystem: V8, MSVCR

The node.exe process crashes when running grunt with the following info:

(be0.c2c): Illegal instruction - code c000001d (first chance)
(be0.c2c): Illegal instruction - code c000001d (!!! second chance !!!)
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found.  Defaulted to export symbols for node.exe - 
node!v8::Unlocker::~Unlocker+0x2ea2a3:
00007ff6`6860f093 c5e173d034      vpsrlq  xmm3,xmm0,34h

I have recompiled node.exe using Visual Studio 2015 Express and that fixed the problem. Apparently there is a bug with CPU instruction set detection in older versions of VS causing this crash. See: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Feedback/Details/981479

[joaocgreis]

There is some work in progress to start building releases with VS2015: #7484 but Node v4 will remain with VS2013.

[jasnell]

Closing. We can reopen if necessary