I think you'll find your original program was crashing regardless, you just weren't seeing the error message when the comment was there (i had a similar problem with data after an __END__ token that also hid the error). Can't explain why tho'...

The require trick mentioned above still doesn't solve the following scenario: 

use strict;
require Win32::MMF::Shareable;
$|++;

tie( my $share, 'Win32::MMF::Shareable', 'share' ) || die;
$share = 'foo';

# do some unrelated forking with $share in scope
unless( fork ) { exit 0 }

# make sure child exits before continuing
sleep 1;

# set/get crashes
print "----before\n";
$share = 'bar';
my $temp = $share;
print "----after\n";

__END__

----before

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use japh; print;

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In reply to Re: Perl forking and shared memory strangeness under Windows by xiper
in thread Perl forking and shared memory strangeness under Windows by Roger

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