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Can someone tell me what the issue is, here?

>> It looks good to my inexperienced eye, but Emacs seems to go for a long time
>> before hitting Fsignal.  I wonder if Fsignal resets other things that might not
>> add up in the interim period but I don't know what the rules are for placing
>> the QUIT macro or whether one could be placed closer to read_char.

Why does it matter when, or whether, Emacs would ever call Fsignal?