#!./perl BEGIN { if( $ENV{PERL_CORE} ) { chdir 't' if -d 't'; @INC = '../lib'; } } use SelfLoader; print "1..1\n"; # this script checks that errors on self-loaded # subroutines that affect $@ are reported eval { buggy(); }; unless ($@ =~ /^syntax error/) { print "not "; } print "ok 1 - syntax errors are reported\n"; __END__ sub buggy { +>*; } =head1 RT 40216 by Bo Lindbergh , at Aug 22, 2006 5:42 PM In the example below, there's a syntax error in the selfloaded code for main::buggy. When the eval fails, SelfLoader::AUTOLOAD tries to report this with "croak $@;". Unfortunately, SelfLoader::croak does "require Carp;" without protecting $@, which gets clobbered. The program then dies with the uninformative message " at ./example line 3". #! /usr/local/bin/perl use SelfLoader; buggy(); __END__ sub buggy { +>*; } =cut