Encyclopedia > ABI

  Article Content

Application Binary Interface

Redirected from ABI

Application Binary Interface (ABI) means the interface[?] by which an application program gains access to operating system and other services. It should be possible to run the same compiled binary applications on any system with the right ABI.

Examples are 88open's Binary Compatibility Standard, the PowerOpen Environment and Windows sockets[?].

See also:

This article (or an earlier version of it) contains material from FOLDOC, used with permission. Modify if needed.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Quadratic formula

... if the coefficients a, b and c are complex numbers, or more generally members of any field whose characteristic is not 2. (In a field of characteristic 2, the element 2a is ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 68.4 ms