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No. On Linux, the only stable ABI is the kernel. On Windows, the stable ABI and API includes many platform components outside of the kernel (in fact, the syscal
by throwaway8581 5y ago
No. On Linux, the only stable ABI is the kernel. On Windows, the stable ABI and API includes many platform components outside of the kernel (in fact, the syscall interface itself is undocumented and NOT backward compatible on Windows). The Windows platform APIs are very expansive and cover a lot of territory that on Linux is covered by non-ABI-stable dependencies.