I've found (barely) enough documentation to be able to use perl_parse from a C program (along with all the other necessary "embed" code), but nothing to give great details about what happens between the call to perl_parse and the Perl code accessing a value for $0.

Without going into too much detail (yet) -- briefly -- I'm looking at being able to have a Perl script which can be run in one of two ways: directly, or embedded from another C program. In the C program, I'm using the normal embedding calls and calling perl_parse with the name of the perl script and properly shifted argc/argv values passed to the C program. As expected by default, $0 is being set to the leaf name of the script loaded by perl_parse.

I'm wondering if there is any way to have $0 be set to some other value than the perl script file name itself under the condition that it is parsed/loaded by my C program. (I.e. I want $0 to have a different value when loaded from the embedding code than it has when run directly.) Oh, and BTW, the value of $0 just happens to be used in BEGIN blocks so it needs to be set during the compile phase, not after the perl_parse call returns (i.e. so I can't just set it using sv_setpv_mg (or something similar) later on.

I suppose it's entirely possible that perl_parse allows no way to have a different value set for $0, but I thought I'd better ask. And see if anyone knows of other documentation with such details than what searches at many search engines have been able to find.

Thanks!