die should be used in that situation.

But let's say you can't edit the Perl code. Instead of evaluating the code directly, call myeval (defined below) with the the string to evaluate as an argument. 

our $override_exit = 0;
BEGIN { 
   *CORE::GLOBAL::exit = sub(;$) {
      no warnings qw( exiting );
      last EXIT_OVERRIDE if $override_exit;
      CORE::exit($_[0] // 0);
   };
}

sub myeval {
   my $exit_was_called = 1;
   EXIT_OVERRIDE: {
      local $override_exit = 1;
      eval($_[0]);
      die $@ if $@;
      $exit_was_called = 0;
   }
   
   die("Exit called\n") if $exit_was_called;
}

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In reply to Re: Embedded perl: allowing 'exit' in eval_pv without exiting C program by ikegami
in thread Embedded perl: allowing 'exit' in eval_pv without exiting C program by daveola

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