I hope it's fixed for newer versions, here what I tried for reproduction:

Just taking the code from alarm and embedding (dummy) code into a long running regex

Generally I try to avoid alarm...

use strict;
use warnings;


my $start;
my $diff;
my $timeout;


sub tst {
    $timeout=shift;
    my $str = "a"x10000;
    $str   .= "b";

    eval {
        local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n" }; # NB: \n required
        alarm $timeout;
        $str =~ /^ (( a*
                         (?{1})  # dummy code
                     )*)*  $/x;    
        alarm 0;
    };
    if ($@) {
        die unless $@ eq "alarm\n"; # propagate unexpected errors
        die "timed out after $timeout sec :". time();
    }
    else {
        print "normal";
    }

}
tst($_)  for 2;

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output 

Complex regular subexpression recursion limit (32766) exceeded at /hom
+e/lanx/B/PL/PM/timeout_regex.pl line 18.

Compilation segmentation fault at Fri May 30 17:41:48

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Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

In reply to Re^4: Stop runaway regex by LanX
in thread Stop runaway regex by yiannis2014

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