>I think you are missing Bills point.  Can you take the code
>you have just written and be sure it will compile and work
>on any arbitrary Pascal compiler?  Would you really want to
>have to have a diffierent implementaion of this code for each
>target you want to use it on?

Have you looked at the conditionals inside Microchip code to cover 
differences between C18 and C30/C32 ???

And these are compilers from a single source ... 

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