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A run-time system is a block of software object code which is loaded together with a compiled or interpreted program, in order to provide facilities that the programming language provides, but neither the CPU's hardware, or the operating system, provides directly.
For instance, a language might specify that it provides floating point, but the CPU's hardware might not; or the language might include I/O, but the OS might not provide what the language expects.
