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  • Yeah the big question is what’s gonna happen to the project after Linus…

    you got it pretty much right. An ABI, depending on the context, could include just the app/OS interface or also the across-apps, across-apps-modules interface too. Things like calling convention, register usage, stack usage, etc.

    when you distribute compiled libraries, you want clients to know how to invoke your functions and know how to retrieve your returned values. That’s part of the ABI too.

    The ABI also defines the type translation from the language (say, C) to asm undertood by a processor (say riscv64g) so, you map types. Following that example, you may instruct the assembler and linker to use abi “lp64” that maps longs and pointers to 64 bits, and integers (int) to 32 bits. This abi also emulates floating point operations (n the other hand, lp64d would make use of dedicated hardware for “double precision” floats)












  • I would argue that the average person refers to a mix of both when they use the word “empathy”:

    • caring about the other person’s pain
    • being there for them
    • trying to see things from their perspective
    • wanting the other person to be better and wondering how one could help.

    Classifying one as “a terrible problem” and the other as acceptable seems (at least) a bit pedantic. Specially when it comes to language, a dynamic phenomena in which words mean what (the majority of) people deem them to mean.

    my two cents