C-h v does not like \" as array element

[David Kastrup]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.4 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2001-10-28 on tupik.goethe.zz
configured using `configure  --prefix=/usr/local/emacs-21'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.ISO8859-1
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

See below recipe.  '\" enters \" into obarray, the subsequent C-h v bombs out.


Recent input:
<escape> : ' \ " <return> C-h v o b a r r a y <return> 
M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
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For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
\"
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forward-sexp: Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 561, 25468
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de