Hi all, I'm trying to do some exception handling similar to: 
$SIG{__DIE__}=sub{$^S and return; print("DIED: ",@_); exit };
eval { die "cya!\n" }; 
$@ and die "outside: ",$@;

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I expect this to produce "DIED: outside: cya!", and with perl 5.8 this is exactly what happens.

However perl 5.6 only gives "outside: cya!". Further hacking shows that the $^S variable is still set when eval exits (and trying to force $^S to 0 is runtime error).

Problem is that this needs to go into production environment with perl 5.6 (RH7.3 distro). Is there a workaround for this bug in 5.6?

Or, any information on installing 5.8 in tandem with existing 5.6 without exploding anything? :)

Thanks for your help.

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In reply to Perl 5.6 exception problem by zude

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