diff --git a/util/util.gyp b/util/util.gyp
index 2b463c62..22faf789 100644
--- a/util/util.gyp
+++ b/util/util.gyp
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@
         'win/process_structs.h',
         'win/registration_protocol_win.cc',
         'win/registration_protocol_win.h',
-        'win/safe_terminate_process.asm',
+        'win/safe_terminate_process.cc',
         'win/safe_terminate_process.h',
         'win/scoped_handle.cc',
         'win/scoped_handle.h',
@@ -355,7 +355,6 @@
         }, {  # else: OS!="win"
           'sources!': [
             'win/capture_context.asm',
-            'win/safe_terminate_process.asm',
           ],
         }],
         ['OS=="linux"', {
diff --git a/util/win/safe_terminate_process.asm b/util/win/safe_terminate_process.asm
deleted file mode 100644
index b219a9e6..00000000
--- a/util/win/safe_terminate_process.asm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-; Copyright 2017 The Crashpad Authors. All rights reserved.
-;
-; Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-; you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-; You may obtain a copy of the License at
-;
-;     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-;
-; Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-; distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-; WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-; See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-; limitations under the License.
-
-; Detect ml64 assembling for x86_64 by checking for rax.
-ifdef rax
-_M_X64 equ 1
-else
-_M_IX86 equ 1
-endif
-
-ifdef _M_IX86
-.586
-.xmm
-.model flat
-
-includelib kernel32.lib
-
-extern __imp__TerminateProcess@8:proc
-
-; namespace crashpad {
-; bool SafeTerminateProcess(HANDLE process, UINT exit_code);
-; }  // namespace crashpad
-SAFETERMINATEPROCESS_SYMBOL equ ?SafeTerminateProcess@crashpad@@YA_NPAXI@Z
-
-_TEXT segment
-public SAFETERMINATEPROCESS_SYMBOL
-
-SAFETERMINATEPROCESS_SYMBOL proc
-
-  ; This function is written in assembler source because it’s important for it
-  ; to not be inlined, for it to allocate a stack frame, and most critically,
-  ; for it to not trust esp on return from TerminateProcess().
-  ; __declspec(noinline) can prevent inlining and #pragma optimize("y", off) can
-  ; disable frame pointer omission, but there’s no way to force a C compiler to
-  ; distrust esp, and even if there was a way, it’d probably be fragile.
-
-  push ebp
-  mov ebp, esp
-
-  push [ebp+12]
-  push [ebp+8]
-  call dword ptr [__imp__TerminateProcess@8]
-
-  ; Convert from BOOL to bool.
-  test eax, eax
-  setne al
-
-  ; TerminateProcess() is supposed to be stdcall (callee clean-up), and esp and
-  ; ebp are expected to already be equal. But if it’s been patched badly by
-  ; something that’s cdecl (caller clean-up), this next move will get things
-  ; back on track.
-  mov esp, ebp
-  pop ebp
-
-  ret
-
-SAFETERMINATEPROCESS_SYMBOL endp
-
-_TEXT ends
-
-endif
-
-end
diff --git a/util/win/safe_terminate_process.cc b/util/win/safe_terminate_process.cc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d7ac32cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/win/safe_terminate_process.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+// Copyright 2017 The Crashpad Authors. All rights reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#include "util/win/safe_terminate_process.h"
+
+#if defined(ARCH_CPU_X86)
+
+namespace crashpad {
+
+// This function is written in assembler source because it’s important for it to
+// not be inlined, for it to allocate a stack frame, and most critically, for it
+// to not trust esp on return from TerminateProcess(). __declspec(naked)
+// conveniently prevents inlining and allows control of stack layout.
+__declspec(naked) bool SafeTerminateProcess(HANDLE process, UINT exit_code) {
+  __asm {
+    push ebp
+    mov ebp, esp
+
+    push [ebp+12]
+    push [ebp+8]
+    call TerminateProcess
+
+    // Convert from BOOL to bool.
+    test eax, eax
+    setne al
+
+    // TerminateProcess() is supposed to be stdcall (callee clean-up), and esp
+    // and ebp are expected to already be equal. But if it’s been patched badly
+    // by something that’s cdecl (caller clean-up), this next move will get
+    // things back on track.
+    mov esp, ebp
+    pop ebp
+
+    ret
+  }
+}
+
+}  // namespace crashpad
+
+#endif  // defined(ARCH_CPU_X86)