Hello all,

I built Emacs on QNX 7.0. For the most part, the process was straight-
forward and required only minimal changes to the source (see below for
a diff). However, I ran into a problem when trying to run Emacs. The
investigation pointed to the use of sbrk(), which QNX dropped many
years ago. There is still a stub that returns -1 and sets errno to
ENOMEM, but the Emacs code doesn't check for that, and interprets the
result as the address 0xffffffffffffffff. Hilarity ensues.

To overcome the problem, I wrote a naive implementation of sbrk() in a
dynamically-linked library (attached). It doesn't fully adhere to the
original semantics of sbrk(), but is enough to get Emacs running
properly.

Why is sbrk() still used? With 64-bit address spaces and ASLR it is
hard to imagine this API being useful. I am surprised that other
operating systems still support it. Is there a different route I can
take that doesn't require the emulated sbrk()?

Thanks,
--Elad


diff -u -r emacs-25.2.orig/configure.ac emacs-25.2/configure.ac
--- emacs-25.2.orig/configure.ac	2017-02-03 09:34:30.000000000 -0500
+++ emacs-25.2/configure.ac	2017-10-22 03:01:12.000000000 -0400
@@ -698,6 +698,14 @@
     esac
   ;;
 
+  ## QNX Neutrino 
+  *-nto-qnx* )
+    echo Found QNX
+    opsys=qnxnto
+    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -D__NO_EXT_QNX"
+    LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/lib -lsocket -lsbrk"
+  ;;
+
   ## Intel 386 machines where we don't care about the manufacturer.
   i[3456]86-*-* )
     case "${canonical}" in
@@ -4465,7 +4473,7 @@
     AC_DEFINE(PTY_TTY_NAME_SPRINTF, [])
     ;;
 
-  gnu | openbsd )
+  gnu | openbsd | qnxnto )
     AC_DEFINE(FIRST_PTY_LETTER, ['p'])
     ;;
 
diff -u -r emacs-25.2.orig/src/unexelf.c emacs-25.2/src/unexelf.c
--- emacs-25.2.orig/src/unexelf.c	2017-02-03 05:25:45.000000000 -0500
+++ emacs-25.2/src/unexelf.c	2017-10-22 03:11:10.000000000 -0400
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
-#if !defined (__NetBSD__) && !defined (__OpenBSD__)
+#if defined(__QNX__)
+#include <sys/elf.h>
+#elif !defined (__NetBSD__) && !defined (__OpenBSD__)
 #include <elf.h>
 #endif /* not __NetBSD__ and not __OpenBSD__ */
 #include <sys/mman.h>

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