Wayne wrote:

>It is better to PREVENT the problem now rather then try and
>fix it or reverse it at some unknown point in the future.
>Thus my point about keeping MPE support at least at it's
>current level in GCC.  Hopefully, the GCC people will even
>wake up a bit and ADD more MPE support.  We can only ask.
>There is no cost in doing so.  I have sent off an email to what I
>beleive is the primary person for GCC development and hopefully I will get
>some sort of response.

Let me predict the response:

* If it's that important to you than you should be part of the
* team that keeps the mpe specific parts current and you can help
* do all the testing to verify the latest builds work correctly.

IOW - the GNU folks don't owe anyone anything - unless you are going
to be paying someone to be an engineer working on the project.

And you should be really glad that somelike like Mark is willing to
keep the compiler revs working on MPE. I think this community owes him
and everyone else who has worked on the compiler port and the other tools
a huge amount of gratitude for all the basically free, volunteer, hard
work that has been applied in this arena.

Now, if you tell me that you are paying Mark and/or Allegro an annual
support
and/or development fee for using these fine tools then please accept my
apology for being slightly grumpy and testy this afternoon :-)

duane percox

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