From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-11-19T06:20:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Anchored Regexp get stalled or hung

rnicz wrote:
>     /^-{128}/
> 
> hangs interpreter. Is it a bug or not?

Fwiw, I can reproduce the hang in 1.8.2 but not in 1.9.0. Maybe it's 
something that Oniguruma fixes.