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