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Mark what is provisional in the design overview #1984

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### ABI and dynamic linking

> **Note:** This is provisional, no design for this has been through the
> proposal process yet.
> **Note:** This reflects goals and plans. No specific design for the
> implementation has been through the proposal process yet.

Carbon itself will not have a stable ABI for the language as a whole, and most
language features will be designed around not having any ABI stability. Instead,
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expressible in the C ABI, and types may need explicit markers to have guaranteed
ABI compatibility.

> References:
>
> - [Goals: Stable language and library ABI](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/docs/project/goals.md#stable-language-and-library-abi)
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> - [#175: C++ interoperability goals: Support mixing Carbon and C++ toolchains](/proposals/p0175.md#support-mixing-carbon-and-c-toolchains)

### Operator overloading

> **Note:** This is provisional, no design for this has been through the
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