On Mar 14, 2018, at 11:21 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

From: Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu>
To: mario buoninfante <mario.buoninfante@gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Iten <itensimon@gmail.com>, pd list <pd-list@iem.at>
Subject: Re: [PD] sysex messages
Message-ID: <20180314222113.GL7620@elroy.localdomain>
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Aha!  Yes, Dan Wilcox contributed a whole raft of changes to s_midi_alsa.c
August 2017.  So it looks like we're in the clear after all...

cheers
Miller