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The API is the source level interface which is used when source code is compiled to produce a binary object. The ABI is the resulting set of binary level interfaces that the compiled application relies on at runtime. We’re concerned with the ABI since we want a given binary object already out in the field to continue to run on subsequent OS releases.
