The microchip C compiler provides macros to carry out a write unprotect of this register. It would be natural that this was supported in ME compilers as well. As it is now, without knowledge of Assembly language, it is for instance not possible to use the alternate external 32kHz oscillator to wake the dsPIC up from sleep, which is the only way to provide timed wake-up with really low power consumption (WDT will be on the size of order 100x as much current, so don't tell me to use that).
Control of this register could be important for other power management as well as safeguarding in case of oscillator failure.
There is a request for this in mikroC for dsPIC forum as well:
http://www.mikroe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10364
I posted a request for a temporary solution to activate the 32kHz oscillator in the main dsPIC pacal forum:
http://www.mikroe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12712
