garbage collection in macro croaks on Ultrix 4.1 RISC

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From: Bill Trost
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 17:41

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[specs: DECstation 3100, Ultrix 4.1, emacs 18.57]

To repeat:

Run (local-set-key "\C-z" "foo\e\e(garbage-collect)\nbar") in a random
buffer.

Type ^Z.

Do a describe-key on ^Z.  It gives the message

    Invalid function:  #<EMACS BUG:  INVALIED DATATYPE (#o37777777603)
    Save your buffers immediately and please report this bug>

I am told this problem does not occur under Sun OS 4.1.1 on either Sun
3s or Sun 4s.

I'm about to build a debugging version of emacs to see if I can't
track this down, along with some problems with child processes.
Ultrix sure has lots of "quirks"....

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