I keep threatening to change compilers (to C18, for example) or make a bigger move to ARM chips, but it seems like I never have time to make the switch.

Also, I have so many thousands (truly!) of PICs in military applications that it is really hard to change. In some cases, it took a year to get the hardware qualified but we now have enough of a 'track record' with the hardware and sw that we can get products qualified "by example". If I changed chips, I would have to start over.

I guess I'll have to keep doing it the hard way for a bit longer.

And one more thing - anyone who thinks that PBP is somehow not as good as 'C' can be told that it is running in an awful lot of very, very critical military applications. When written correctly, PBP is bulletproof.