ADDITIONAL SYSTEM INFORMATION :
JRE 1.8.0_251 (64 bit)

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Since JRE 1.8.0_251 (64 bit) on Windows, several Eclipse-based applications just crash at startup silently without any further warning/message. I found out it is related to a crash and a core dump is created under:
C:\Users\[USER]\AppData\Local\CrashDumps\eclipse.exe.[PID].dmp

It works just fine if I use the previous JRE (i.e. build 1.8.0_241).

REGRESSION : Last worked in version 8

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
The easiest way to reproduce that I found out is the following:
* Download the Eclipse Proton version (https://www.eclipse.org/photon/)
* Extract it, create a sub-folder "jre" and put the JRE 1.8.0_251 (64 bit) into that folder to ensure Eclipse uses this version
* run eclipse.exe
* [CRASH]
* ow if you replace the JRE with the version before (build 1.8.0_241) it works.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
It should not crash, esp. not silently. :-)
ACTUAL -
Silent crash.

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
Use a previous Java JRE version (anything before 1.8.0_251)

FREQUENCY : always