The document provides an introduction to the System V Application Binary Interface specification, which defines the binary interface for compiled application programs running on System V implementations across different hardware architectures. It discusses that the ABI specification is composed of a generic part describing platform-independent interfaces and processor-specific supplements describing architecture-dependent interfaces. The ABI is based on several reference documents including the target system's processor architecture manual, the System V Interface Definition, POSIX, X/Open CAE Specification 4.2, ISO C and X Window System standards. All interfaces in the X/Open CAE 4.2 and certain interfaces from System V ABI 4th Edition are included in this ABI 4.1 specification.