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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.