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'''OSAL (Operating System Abstraction Layer)'''

When writing code that requires [[porting]] onto multiple [[software]]/[[hardware]] platforms, building the code on an [[Abstraction (computer science)|abstraction]] of the [[Operating system]] decreases porting time and porting complexity. OSAL deals with presenting an abstraction of the common system functionality that is offered by any Operating system by the means of providing meaningful and easy to use Wrapper functions that in turn encapsulate the system functions offered by the OS to .