Application Binary Interfaces

Binary interfaces between system and application components are defined to enable the asynchronous evolution of these facilities. The Solaris linkers operate upon these interfaces to assemble applications for execution. Although all components handled by the Solaris linkers have binary interfaces, the whole set of interfaces provided by the system is referred to as the Solaris ABI.

The Solaris ABI is a technological descendent for work on ABIs that started with the System V Application Binary Interface and the successor work performed by SPARC^TM International for SPARC processors called the SPARC® Compliance Definition (SCD).