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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:01:23 +0100
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On 2019-02-27 15:06, russ lyttle wrote:

> Thus my desire for an OS and Ada not dependent on any POSIX layer. Still 
> digging, but it looks to me like gnat depends on a POSIX layer.
> Is that true?

The GNAT RTS is capable to use pthreads if you mean that. Nothing more. 
In fact if you look at the GNAT run-time you will see lots of 
OS-specific calls. So, no GNAT RTS does not depend on POSIX.

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