I'm being imprecise. I wasn't sure if it's just the difference between a self-modifying regex, a regex that modifies source data (and then calls itself), or regexes that just include other regexes. On further consideration I'm sure that it makes a difference I was using the (??{})/(?{}) constructs. Perhaps it's that sort of use that got me into hot water.

Update: it was just some toy code that did something about defining a qr// regex in terms of a source string, modified the source string and then had the qr// regex call itself again with the new data.

Update again: My misunderstanding was on whether more than one instance of the regex engine could be active at once. Perhaps it was the regex compilation that killed it. Anyhow I'll just do a bug report now that I know it's not a Just-Don't-Do-That sort of thing.

__SIG__
use B;
printf "You are here %08x\n", unpack "L!", unpack "P4", pack
  "L!", B::svref_2object(sub{})->OUTSIDE;

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