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{{short description|Binary interface between two program units}}

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[[File:Linux kernel interfaces.svg|thumb|300px|A high-level comparison of in-kernel and kernel-to-userspace APIs and ABIs]]

[[File:Linux API and Linux ABI.svg|thumb|300px|[[Linux kernel]] and [[GNU C Library]] define the [[Linux kernel interfaces#Kernel–user space API|Linux API]]. After compilation, the binaries offer an ABI; keeping this ABI stable over a long time is important for [[Independent software vendor|ISVs]].]]

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<ref name="ppc-eabi">{{cite book

| title = PowerPC Embedded Application Binary Interface: 32-Bit Implementation

| date = 1 October 1995-10-01

| edition = Version 1.0

| chapter = EABI Summary

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}}</ref> The choice of EABI can affect performance.<ref>{{cite web

|title=Debian ARM accelerates via EABI port

|date=2016-10-16 October 2016

|publisher=Linuxdevices.com

|url=http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9048137234.html

|accessdate=2007-10-11 October 2007

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070121183413/http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9048137234.html

|archivedate=21 January 2007

|url-status=dead

}}</ref><ref>{{cite web

|author=Andrés Calderón and Nelson Castillo

|title=Why ARM's EABI matters

|date=2007-03-14 March 2007

|publisher=Linuxdevices.com

|url=http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5920399313.html

|accessdate=2007-10-11 October 2007

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070331193917/http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5920399313.html

|archivedate=31 March 2007

|url-status=dead

}}</ref>

Widely used EABIs include [[PowerPC]],<ref name="ppc-eabi"/> [[Arm architecture|Arm]] EABI<ref>{{cite web|url=https://developer.arm.com/architectures/system-architectures/software-standards/abi |title=ABI for the Arm Architecture |publisher=Developer.arm.com |date= |accessdate=4 February 2020-02-04}}</ref> and [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]] EABI.<ref>{{cite mailing list |url=https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/binutils/2003-06/msg00436.html |author=Eric Christopher |title=mips eabi documentation |mailing-list=[e-mail] |date=2003-06-11 June 2003 |accessdate=19 June 2020-06-19}}</ref>

== See also ==

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{{Application binary interface}}

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[[Category:Application programming interfaces]]