Re: Forcing stack trace?

[tinita]

Can I tell perl to produce a stack trace, even when the program doesn't use carp, cluck, et al?

i'm not sure what do you mean by that.

use Carp qw(longmess);
print longmess();

works for me.

[Anonymous Monk]

From what I understand, stack trace can be printed if we use the Carp module (e.g. confess). But suppose other people's code just use die() and not use Carp at all?

[adrianh]

You can override the global __DIE__ handler something like (untested):

use Carp;
$SIG{ __DIE__ } = sub { Carp::confess( @_ ) };

See perlvar for more info on %SIG.