> perl -MCarp -le 'croak "Died here"'
Died here at -e line 1

> perl -MCarp -le 'croak "Died here\n"'
Died here
 at -e line 1
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Which is not the same as your ouput, but I would consider mine better, since the reason to use croak is to give the file/line message in the first place.

This is perl, v5.8.6 built for i686-linux.
(with -DDEBUGGING by the way, though I doubt that matters.)