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/*---
es5id: 15.10.4.1-2
description: >
    RegExp - the thrown error is SyntaxError instead of RegExpError
    when the characters of 'P' do not have the syntactic form Pattern
includes: [runTestCase.js]
---*/

function testcase() {
        try {
            var regExpObj = new RegExp('\\');

            return false;
        } catch (e) {
            return e instanceof SyntaxError;
        }
    }
runTestCase(testcase);
