On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 14:20, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> I'm a bit confused, I guess.  What's the difference between an API
> (Application programmer interface) and an ABI (application binary
> interface)?  In both cases, they seem to be libraries used by developers
> to do stuff.
> 

API has to do with how a programmer (and his/her code) interacts with a
library.

ABI has to do with how code is executed by an operating system.

-davidc




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