in reply to Re^3: 5.10 shows uninitialized $@ warning
in thread 5.10 shows uninitialized $@ warning

Thanks starbolin, to fix the cause of the problem is for me the the best solution. Your doubts are right. Between my "global" sig `die` handler and the one shown was a place where I make
local $SIG{'__DIE__'};
As I removed this, the real error message occurs from "global" handler and was fixed easily.