The term Linux ABI refers to a kernel–user space ABI. The [[application binary interface]] refers(ABI) tois thea compiledkernel–user binaries,space inABI. As ABI is a [[machine code]].Anyinterface, suchthe Linux ABI is therefore bound to the [[instruction set]]. Defining a useful ABI and keeping it stable is less the responsibility of the Linux kernel developers or of the developers of the GNU C Library, and more the task for [[Linux distribution]]s and [[independent software vendor]]s (ISVs) who wish to sell and provide support for their proprietary software as binaries only for such a single Linux ABI, as opposed to supporting multiple Linux ABIs.
An ABI has to be defined for every instruction set, such as [[x86]], [[x86-64]], [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]], [[ARMv7-A]] (32-Bit), [[ARMv8-A]] (64-Bit), etc. with the [[endianness]], if both are supported.
