2 files changed, 17 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/lib/diagnostics.pm b/lib/diagnostics.pm
index 4ef9a2f64d..b2249430b2 100755
--- a/lib/diagnostics.pm
+++ b/lib/diagnostics.pm
@@ -476,11 +476,18 @@ sub death_trap {
     if (caller eq $WHOAMI) { print STDERR "INTERNAL EXCEPTION: $exception"; } 
     &$olddie if defined $olddie and $olddie and $olddie ne \&death_trap;
 
+    return if $in_eval;
+
     # We don't want to unset these if we're coming from an eval because
-    # then we've turned off diagnostics. (Actually what does this next
-    # line do?  -PSeibel)
-    $SIG{__DIE__} = $SIG{__WARN__} = '' unless $in_eval;
+    # then we've turned off diagnostics.
+
+    # Switch off our die/warn handlers so we don't wind up in our own
+    # traps.
+    $SIG{__DIE__} = $SIG{__WARN__} = '';
+
+    # Have carp skip over death_trap() when showing the stack trace.
     local($Carp::CarpLevel) = 1;
+
     confess "Uncaught exception from user code:\n\t$exception";
 	# up we go; where we stop, nobody knows, but i think we die now
 	# but i'm deeply afraid of the &$olddie guy reraising and us getting
diff --git a/lib/diagnostics.t b/lib/diagnostics.t
index 14014f6b68..486f8f6dd8 100644
--- a/lib/diagnostics.t
+++ b/lib/diagnostics.t
@@ -5,34 +5,14 @@ BEGIN {
     @INC = 'lib';
 }
 
+use Test::More tests => 2;
 
-######################### We start with some black magic to print on failure.
+BEGIN { use_ok('diagnostics') }
 
-# Change 1..1 below to 1..last_test_to_print .
-# (It may become useful if the test is moved to ./t subdirectory.)
-use strict;
-use warnings;
+require base;
 
-use vars qw($Test_Num $Total_tests);
+eval {
+    'base'->import(qw(I::do::not::exist));
+};
 
-my $loaded;
-BEGIN { $| = 1; $Test_Num = 1 }
-END {print "not ok $Test_Num\n" unless $loaded;}
-print "1..$Total_tests\n";
-BEGIN { require diagnostics; } # Don't want diagnostics' noise yet.
-$loaded = 1;
-ok($loaded, 'compile');
-######################### End of black magic.
-
-sub ok {
-	my($test, $name) = shift;
-	print "not " unless $test;
-	print "ok $Test_Num";
-	print " - $name" if defined $name;
-	print "\n";
-	$Test_Num++;
-}
-
-
-# Change this to your # of ok() calls + 1
-BEGIN { $Total_tests = 1 }
+is( $@, '',   'diagnostics not tripped up by "use base qw(Dont::Exist)"' );