Hi, Okay first of all I'm still a newbie with Perl. I'm having a problem with Carp on ActivePerl 5.8.7/8 and dual core or multiprocessor Win32 (2000/xp/2003) systems. The following is a short reproducer. 
use Carp;

my_main(@ARGV);

sub my_main
{
  my $first = shift @ARGV;
  carp "Rubbish\n";
  exit;
}

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When executed, it gives: 
$ argv 1
Bizarre copy of ARRAY in sassign at C:/progfile/Perl-5.8.8/lib/Carp/He
+avy.pm line 45.

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The code is written this way for unit testing, the real module starts with the line : main (@ARGV) unless caller();
The reference to @ARGV rather than @_ in 'main' is required for Getopt::Long::GetOptions.
Can I pass @ARGV ?, seems to work on a uniprocessor, Can I fool GetOptions to operate on @_, or can't we test this code :-?
Thanks for any advice
gjh

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