in reply to Re: Re: Re: pattern match hangs on malformed UTF-8 input
in thread pattern match hangs on malformed UTF-8 input

and here's the output:
>x <
SV = PVMG(0x8101240) at 0x80f4858
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (SMG,POK,pPOK)
  IV = 0
  NV = 0
  PV = 0x80ff368 "x\227 "\0
  CUR = 3
  LEN = 80
  MAGIC = 0x81429f8
    MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_mglob
    MG_TYPE = 'g'
    MG_LEN = -1

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(...and the script doesn't exit)

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