In computer software, an application binary interface (ABI) is an interface between two binary program modules. Often, one of these modules is a library or operating system facility, and the …

Feb 8, 2025 · It is today the standard ABI used by the major Unix operating systems such as Linux, the BSD systems, and many others. The Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) is part …

The term Linux ABI refers to a kernel–user space ABI. The application binary interface refers to the compiled binaries, in machine code. Any such ABI is therefore bound to the instruction set.

Jul 12, 2002 · An Application Binary Interface (ABI) defines the runtime interfaces. between an executable and the OS under which it is executing. An ABI. consists of the following constituents:

The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX; IPA: / ˈpɒz.ɪks / [1]) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating …

Oper-ating systems conforming to the AMD64 ABI may provide support for executing programs that are designed to execute in these compatibility modes. The AMD64 ABI does not apply to …

Note that while the parisc C ABI also uses aligned register pairs, it uses a shim layer to hide the issue from user space. The affected system calls are fadvise64_64(2), ftruncate64(2), …

WASI is a WebAssembly ABI inspired by CloudABI that allows doing system calls in a permission based fashion. That way, the WebAssembly modules would only have the access that we …

Jan 27, 2011 · In computer software, an application binary interface (ABI) describes the low-level interface between an application (or any type of) program and the operating system or another …

UNIX International (UI) has proposed the ABI as the binary stan­ dard for UNIX software distribution. The ABI conforms to the POSIX and X/Open standards; it has also been subject …