diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a648cec4..badafd9f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -599,7 +599,8 @@ performs all the steps in a configurable manner.
 Example:
 ```javascript
 var result = UglifyJS.minify("var b = function() {};");
-console.log(result.code); // minified output
+console.log(result.code);  // minified output
+console.log(result.error); // runtime error
 ```
 
 You can also compress multiple files:
diff --git a/bin/uglifyjs b/bin/uglifyjs
index 8bb8e700..d75b0ee1 100755
--- a/bin/uglifyjs
+++ b/bin/uglifyjs
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ function run() {
             }
         }
     } catch (ex) {
-        fatal("ERROR: " + ex.message);
+        fatal(ex.stack);
     }
     var result = UglifyJS.minify(files, options);
     if (result.error) {
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ function run() {
             console.error("Supported options:");
             console.error(ex.defs);
         }
-        fatal("ERROR: " + ex.message);
+        fatal(ex.stack);
     } else if (program.output == "ast") {
         console.log(JSON.stringify(result.ast, function(key, value) {
             if (skip_key(key)) return;
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ function run() {
 }
 
 function fatal(message) {
-    console.error(message);
+    console.error(message.replace(/^\S*?Error:/, "ERROR:"));
     process.exit(1);
 }
 
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ function read_file(path, default_value) {
         return fs.readFileSync(path, "utf8");
     } catch (ex) {
         if (ex.code == "ENOENT" && default_value != null) return default_value;
-        fatal("ERROR: " + ex.message);
+        fatal(ex.stack);
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 282688f6..8016ea54 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   "homepage": "http://lisperator.net/uglifyjs",
   "author": "Mihai Bazon <mihai.bazon@gmail.com> (http://lisperator.net/)",
   "license": "BSD-2-Clause",
-  "version": "3.0.1",
+  "version": "3.0.2",
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=0.8.0"
   },
diff --git a/test/mocha/cli.js b/test/mocha/cli.js
index 6fc124d9..925de4e5 100644
--- a/test/mocha/cli.js
+++ b/test/mocha/cli.js
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ describe("bin/uglifyjs", function () {
 
         exec(command, function (err, stdout, stderr) {
             assert.ok(err);
-            assert.strictEqual(stderr, "ERROR: inline source map only works with singular input\n");
+            assert.strictEqual(stderr.split(/\n/)[0], "ERROR: inline source map only works with singular input");
             done();
         });
     });
diff --git a/test/ufuzz.js b/test/ufuzz.js
index b2ec9e09..0a043c2f 100644
--- a/test/ufuzz.js
+++ b/test/ufuzz.js
@@ -856,23 +856,21 @@ function createVarName(maybe, dontStore) {
 }
 
 function try_beautify(code, result) {
-    try {
-        var beautified = UglifyJS.minify(code, {
-            compress: false,
-            mangle: false,
-            output: {
-                beautify: true,
-                bracketize: true,
-            },
-        }).code;
-        if (sandbox.same_stdout(sandbox.run_code(beautified), result)) {
-            console.log("// (beautified)");
-            console.log(beautified);
-            return;
-        }
-    } catch (e) {
+    var beautified = UglifyJS.minify(code, {
+        compress: false,
+        mangle: false,
+        output: {
+            beautify: true,
+            bracketize: true,
+        },
+    });
+    if (beautified.error) {
         console.log("// !!! beautify failed !!!");
-        console.log(e.stack);
+        console.log(beautified.error.stack);
+    } else if (sandbox.same_stdout(sandbox.run_code(beautified.code), result)) {
+        console.log("// (beautified)");
+        console.log(beautified.code);
+        return;
     }
     console.log("//");
     console.log(code);
@@ -908,12 +906,13 @@ function log_suspects(minify_options, component) {
             var o = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(options));
             o[name] = false;
             m[component] = o;
-            try {
-                var r = sandbox.run_code(UglifyJS.minify(original_code, m).code);
-                return sandbox.same_stdout(original_result, r);
-            } catch (e) {
+            var result = UglifyJS.minify(original_code, m);
+            if (result.error) {
                 console.log("Error testing options." + component + "." + name);
-                console.log(e);
+                console.log(result.error);
+            } else {
+                var r = sandbox.run_code(result.code);
+                return sandbox.same_stdout(original_result, r);
             }
         }
     });
@@ -981,18 +980,16 @@ for (var round = 1; round <= num_iterations; round++) {
     original_code = createTopLevelCode();
     original_result = sandbox.run_code(original_code);
     (typeof original_result != "string" ? fallback_options : minify_options).forEach(function(options) {
-        try {
-            uglify_code = UglifyJS.minify(original_code, JSON.parse(options)).code;
-        } catch (e) {
-            uglify_code = e;
-        }
-
-        ok = typeof uglify_code == "string";
-        if (ok) {
+        uglify_code = UglifyJS.minify(original_code, JSON.parse(options));
+        if (!uglify_code.error) {
+            uglify_code = uglify_code.code;
             uglify_result = sandbox.run_code(uglify_code);
             ok = sandbox.same_stdout(original_result, uglify_result);
-        } else if (typeof original_result != "string") {
-            ok = uglify_code.name == original_result.name;
+        } else {
+            uglify_code = uglify_code.error;
+            if (typeof original_result != "string") {
+                ok = uglify_code.name == original_result.name;
+            }
         }
         if (verbose || (verbose_interval && !(round % INTERVAL_COUNT)) || !ok) log(options);
         else if (verbose_error && typeof original_result != "string") {