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Date: 2012-05-14T11:34:42-07:00
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On Monday, May 14, 2012 6:31:27 AM UTC-5, Patrick wrote:
> Hi Shark8, Hi Ludovic
>=20
> Thank you both for your answers. I understand the situation now. I am goi=
ng to stick to some sort of OS.
>=20
> Have a great day-Pat

That _might_ be the worst option available.
For one thing, it ties you to that specific OS; another is that the the Ada=
 runtime _can_ take care of a lot of things in a higher-level manner (e.g. =
tasking) than relying on the OS & libraries (like how C++ uses Boost to do =
parallelism)... as you can see that option might require compiling the runt=
ime itself for that target (with attendant fiddling to suit the architectur=
e).

A third, and more hybrid approach would be to define the operations/functio=
nality you need in a package and put all your low-level stuff into the body=
 thereof. This however presents [or tends to] more of the weaknesses of bot=
h methods than the strengths of either.