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Rud, Because the C cross compiler (for which we had paid about $7500) couldn't handle certain syntax errors and crashed when it encountered them. The point is that I don't think my co-workers would be real happy if I inadvertantly tried to compile such a program while they were in the middle of an editing session and they lost all their work as a result. For that matter, even if I were debugging my own code and got a fatal error, there's no reason that should have any impact on them; isn't that what a multi-user (although not neccessarily multi-tasking) system is all about :-). (I agree with your original statement that for a dedicated, embedded <redundant!> system, there's usually no difference between a task crash and a system crash.) Jon.