--- a/src/share/vm/utilities/debug.cpp	Wed Aug 06 11:57:31 2008 -0400
+++ b/src/share/vm/utilities/debug.cpp	Thu Aug 21 23:36:31 2008 -0400
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 1997-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright 1997-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -208,7 +208,9 @@
     Thread* thread = ThreadLocalStorage::get_thread_slow();
     VMError(thread, size, message, file_name, line_no).report_and_die();
   }
-  vm_abort();
+
+  // Dump core and abort
+  vm_abort(true);
 }
 
 void report_vm_out_of_memory_vararg(const char* file_name, int line_no, size_t size, const char* format, ...) {