It isn't just that $@ is getting blown away, is it?

No, I have tried that in the code that this issue originally showed up in. But now I have discovered something even weirder. When I changed this: 

push @stack_trace, [ (caller($i))[0 .. 3] ] while caller(++$i);

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to this (taken straight from Devel::StackTrace): 
while ( do { package DB; @DB::args = (); @c = caller($i++) } ) {
    push @stack_trace, [ @c[0 .. 3] ];        
}

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(Note the post-increment of $i instead of the pre-increment)

This makes the Devel::Cover run work, and the plain test fail. So it seems that maybe Devel::Cover is pushing up the caller level?

Oh well, still looking.

-stvn

In reply to Re^2: Devel::Cover eating caller() information by stvn
in thread Devel::Cover eating caller() information by stvn

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