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QNX Software Development Platform
QNX SDP is a cross-compiling and debugging environment, including an IDE and command-line tools, for building binary images and programs for target boards running QNX Neutrino 7.1.
OS Components & Operations
QNX Helpers Developer's Guide
These libraries provide QNX helpers, including helpers that assist with logging, string conversion, and number and type sizes.
qh.h
QNX helpers that set QH_FILENAME and prevent unsafe functions from being used.
Using qh.h
In most cases, you do not have to include qh.h because it is included by all other QNX helper headers.

QNX Momentics IDE User's Guide
This User's Guide describes version 7.1 of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that's part of the QNX Momentics tool suite.
QNX Software Development Platform
QNX SDP is a cross-compiling and debugging environment, including an IDE and command-line tools, for building binary images and programs for target boards running QNX Neutrino 7.1.
- Quickstart Guide
- OS Components & Operations
  - Adaptive Partitioning User's Guide
  - Boot Optimization Guide
    The Boot Optimization Guide describes techniques you can use to reduce the time from your board's initial power on until you have a fully functional QNX system running on the board.
  - Building Embedded Systems
    The Building Embedded Systems guide is intended for developers who are developing or building BSPs for QNX Neutrino RTOS embedded systems.
  - Core Networking Stack User's Guide
    This guide introduces you to the QNX Neutrino Core Networking stack and its manager, io-pkt.
  - Customizing a BSP
    While QNX provides Board Support Packages (BSPs) for many common platforms and their individual variants, in some cases, you need a BSP for a board that QNX does not provide. If this is the case, you can modify a QNX BSP or develop your own.
  - Device Publishers Developer's Guide
  - High Availability Framework Developer's Guide
  - High-Performance Networking Stack (io-sock) User's Guide
    This guide contains instructions for implementing and using the QNX Neutrino High-Performance Networking Stack and its manager, io-sock.
  - Instant Device Activation
  - Migrating to QNX SDP 7.1
  - PCI Server User's Guide
  - Persistent Publish/Subscribe Developer's Guide
  - Platform-independent Publish/Subscribe Developer's Guide
    This guide is intended for application developers who want to use the Platform-independent Publish Subscribe (PiPS) framework to exchange information with other applications. First, the overall PiPS design and data-exchange model are explained. Then, tutorials on using PiPS are given. These tutorials cover key tasks such as selecting a publish-subscribe provider to use and writing plugins that read and write custom data types.
  - QDB Developer's Guide
  - QNX Helpers Developer's Guide
    These libraries provide QNX helpers, including helpers that assist with logging, string conversion, and number and type sizes.
    - attr.h
      QNX helpers - Attribute helpers.
    - endian.h
      QNX helpers - Endianness-related helpers.
    - error.h
      QNX helpers - Helpers related to the errno variable.
    - io.h
      QNX helpers - IO helpers.
    - log.h
      QNX helpers related to logging.
    - misc.h
      QNX helpers - Miscellaneous helpers.
    - qh.h
      QNX helpers that set QH_FILENAME and prevent unsafe functions from being used.
      - Using qh.h
        In most cases, you do not have to include qh.h because it is included by all other QNX helper headers.
      - Definitions in qh.h
        Preprocessor macro definitions for the qh.h header file in the qh library
    - size.h
      QNX helpers - Size-related helpers.
    - string.h
      QNX helpers - Helpers related to strings and string conversions.
    - time.h
      QNX helpers - Helpers related to time.
  - SMMUMAN User's Guide
  - System Analysis Toolkit (SAT) User's Guide
  - System Architecture
    The System Architecture guide accompanies the QNX Neutrino RTOS and is intended for both application developers and end-users.
  - Technotes
  - User's Guide
    The QNX Neutrino User's Guide is intended for all users of a QNX Neutrino RTOS system, from system administrators to end users.
- Audio & Graphics API
- Multimedia
- Networking Middleware
- Programming
- Sensor Framework
- System Security Guide
  The QNX System Security Guide is intended for both system integrators who are responsible for the security of a QNX Neutrino RTOS system and developers who want to create a QNX Neutrino resource manager free from vulnerabilities.
- Utilities & Libraries
QNX Hypervisor
The QNX Hypervisor allows you to run multiple OSs on a target system so you can separate critical and non-critical functions, support a wide variety of applications, and reduce hardware costs.
QNX Software in the Cloud
QNX Software in the Cloud enables developers to use the QNX software in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure (Azure).
QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks User's Guide
This User's Guide is aimed at all systems integrators and developers who want to design and build embedded systems using the QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks.
Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation and explains how to obtain technical support.

Using qh.h

In most cases, you do not have to include qh.h because it is included by all other QNX helper headers.

QH_FILENAME definition

After qh.h is included, QH_FILENAME is available to the source file and contains the filename specified by __FILE__. If you are using a GNU compiler, QH_FILENAME is FILE with the path removed and QH_FILENAME_HAS_FULLPATH is false; otherwise, QH_FILENAME is __FILE__ and QH_FILENAME_HAS_FULLPATH is true. (Note that qh.h doesn't include stdbool.h.) If QH_FILENAME_HAS_FULLPATH is false, QH_SHORT_FILENAME_DEFINED is defined.

Forbidden functions

The qh.h header file prevents the use of the following functions, which are generally considered unsafe, and prompts you to use safer alternatives provided in libc: strtok(), strcpy(), strcat(), strncpy(), strncat(), gets(), and mktemp().

It also prevents the use of the following functions because they cannot be used according to the QNX coding standard in addition to being unsafe: atoi(), atol(), atoll(), and atof().

To allow the set of unsafe functions (strtok(), strcpy(), and so on) to be used, define QH_ALLOW_UNSAFE before you include any of the QNX helpers header files.
To allow the set of functions forbidden by the QNX coding standard (atoi(), atol(),and so on) define QH_BYPASS_CS_RULES before you include any of the QNX helpers header files.

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