- make the scanner unconditionally gc compatible
- consistently use "invalid" instead "illegal" in errors

Reviewed in and cherry-picked from https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/33896/.

Change-Id: I4c4253e7392f3311b0d838bbe503576c9469b203
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/34237
Run-TryBot: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>