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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.
log.h
QNX helpers related to logging.
Macros
These macros are the preferred method for making log calls. They are simplified versions of the QNX helpers logging functions.
QH_LOG_DEFAULT_CONTEXT_INIT()
A macro that initializes the context whose name is defined by QH_LOG_USER_CONTEXT_NAME

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.
      - Setting up QNX helpers logging
        QNX helpers logging provides default settings and configuration that initialize slog2.
      - Controlling QNX helpers logging
        Logging using QNX helpers is controlled by a configuration string that specifies a combination of the destination flags, the verbosity of a context, and the message-specific flags.
      - Macros
        These macros are the preferred method for making log calls. They are simplified versions of the QNX helpers logging functions.
        qh_log()
        A macro that logs a message along with the originating filename and line number
        QH_LOG_CHECK()
        A macro that checks whether a message with the specified severity would be logged
        QH_LOG_DEFAULT_CONTEXT_INIT()
        A macro that initializes the context whose name is defined by QH_LOG_USER_CONTEXT_NAME
        qh_log_linetrace()
        A macro that logs a debug line trace message along with the originating filename, function, and line number, using the QH_LOG_SEVERITY_DEBUG2 severity level
        qh_log_loc()
        A macro that logs a message along with the originating filename, function, and line number
        qh_log_noloc()
        A macro that logs a message without any associated location information
      - Macro variables
        These macro definitions are used with QNX helpers logging macros and functions.
      - qh_log_check()
        Check whether a message with the given log information structure is logged
      - qh_log_context_create()
        Create a logging context
      - qh_log_context_destroy()
        Destroys a logging context
      - qh_log_context_normalize_name()
        Normalize a context name
      - qh_log_context_t
        The opaque context type used by QNX helpers logging functions
      - qh_log_ex()
        Log a formatted message
      - qh_log_get_destinations()
        Get the destinations a specified context uses
      - qh_log_get_destinations_by_name()
        Get logging destinations based on a context name
      - qh_log_get_verbosity()
        Get the verbosity for the specified combination of context and destinations
      - qh_log_get_verbosity_by_name()
        Get the verbosity for the specified combination of named context and destinations
      - qh_log_info_t
        The information structure used with QNX helpers logging functions
      - qh_log_set_cl_mode()
        Set the logging configuration to command line mode
      - qh_log_update_config()
        Update the logging configuration based on a configuration string
      - qh_vlog_ex()
        Log a formatted message using a variable-argument list
    - misc.h
      QNX helpers - Miscellaneous helpers.
    - qh.h
      QNX helpers that set QH_FILENAME and prevent unsafe functions from being used.
    - 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.

QH_LOG_DEFAULT_CONTEXT_INIT()

A macro that initializes the context whose name is defined by QH_LOG_USER_CONTEXT_NAME

Description:

This macro initializes QH_LOG_USER_CONTEXT_NAME, which specifies the name of a logging context for the QNX helpers logging interface to use.

For more information, see Setting up QNX helpers logging.

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