Run-time environment
operating system
A collection of subroutines and environment variables that provide commonly used functions and data for a program while it is running.
Compare run-time support.
(1995-03-22)
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- Run-time support
run-time system
- Run-time system
programming (RTS, run-time support, run-time) Library code and processes which support software written in a particular language running on a particular platform. The RTS typically deals with details of the interface between the program and the operating system such as system calls, program start-up and termination, and memory management. (1999-07-26)
- Run-time type information
compiler (RTTI) Facilities included in C++ compilers to allow the type of an object to be determined at run time. This facility, found in good C++ compilers and some other high level languages, adds type information to memory resident objects (i.e. type name or unique type-id). This allows the run-time system to determine if an […]