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Joel Sherrill wrote:
> I have always enjoyed the irony that C/C++ supporters enhancing RTEMS 
> are improving it as an Ada run-time. :)

It's not really ironic. Remember that, while the Ada world thinks of
C/C++ as the enemy and the competition, the C/C++ world barely realizes
that Ada exists, and certainly wouldn't mind giving it a helping hand.