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From: jasonr (Jason Rumney) @  f2s.com
Subject: Re: emacs C question
Date: 25 Sep 2003 22:19:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <un0cstvkx.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3ad8svbxd.fsf@cisco.com

John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:

> Ok, this is my first time in the emacs C code and I'm relatively new
> to C so please be patient.  
> 
> 1) Why does this function cause emacs to immediately close with 
> 
> Fatal error (6).Aborted

You are probably calling it from an asynchronous signal handler. The
Lisp engine cannot be called this way, generate an event instead and
let Lisp handle it in its normal loop.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-25 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-24 19:00 emacs C question John Russell
2003-09-25  2:30 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-09-25 12:51   ` John Russell
2003-09-25 18:35     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-25 18:37     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-25 20:41       ` John Russell
2003-09-25 21:19         ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2003-09-25 21:36         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-25 19:07     ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-25 20:42       ` John Russell
2003-09-25 21:16         ` Jason Rumney

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