Hello fellow Perl fans, I'm currently working on a Lua-Perl bridge, and I'm implementing a function perl.require that loads a Perl module from Lua, in the same manner as CORE::require. The usage is as follows: 
require 'perl'
perl.require 'Scalar::Util'

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This works fine, but if I'm missing a module... 
require 'perl'
perl.require 'Doesnt::Exist::Yet'

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In this case, Perl dies with a module not found error and calls exit(). Here's my implementation of perl.require: 
static int perl_interp_require(lua_State *L)
{
    size_t len;
    const char *modname;
    SV *modnameSv;

    modname = luaL_checklstring(L, 1, &len);
    modnameSv = newSVpvn(modname, len);

    /* Exits on failure */
    load_module(PERL_LOADMOD_NOIMPORT, modnameSv, NULL);

    check_perl_error(L, 1); // left out for brevity; checks $@

    return 0;
}

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Is there a way to catch any errors that load_module may throw? I did a quick search for "perl xs load_module catch die", but it yielded nothing useful. Thanks for any and all help! -Rob

In reply to Catching a die in Perl XS by robhoelz

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