Landing https://codereview.chromium.org/1171223003/ for Chinmay.

runtime/bin/platform_macos.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "platform/globals.h"
 #if defined(TARGET_OS_MACOS)
 
 #include <mach-o/dyld.h>
 
 #include "bin/file.h"
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   return "dylib";
 }
 
 
 bool Platform::LocalHostname(char *buffer, intptr_t buffer_length) {
   return gethostname(buffer, buffer_length) == 0;
 }
 
 
 char** Platform::Environment(intptr_t* count) {
+#if defined(TARGET_OS_IOS)
+  // TODO(iposva): On Mac (desktop), _NSGetEnviron() is used to access the
+  // environ from shared libraries or bundles. This is present in crt_externs.h
+  // which is unavailable on iOS. On iOS, everything is statically linked for
+  // now. So arguably, accessing the environ directly with a "extern char
+  // **environ" will work. But this approach is brittle as the target with this
+  // CU could be a dynamic framework (introduced in iOS 8). A more elegant
+  // approach needs to be devised.
+  return NULL;
+#else
   // Using environ directly is only safe as long as we do not
   // provide access to modifying environment variables.
   // On MacOS you have to do a bit of magic to get to the
   // environment strings.
   char** environ = *(_NSGetEnviron());
   intptr_t i = 0;
   char** tmp = environ;
   while (*(tmp++) != NULL) i++;
   *count = i;
   char** result = new char*[i];
   for (intptr_t current = 0; current < i; current++) {
     result[current] = environ[current];
   }
   return result;
+#endif
 }
 
 
 void Platform::FreeEnvironment(char** env, intptr_t count) {
   delete[] env;
 }
 
 
 char* Platform::ResolveExecutablePath() {
   // Get the required length of the buffer.
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   // Return the canonical path as the returned path might contain symlinks.
   char* canon_path = File::GetCanonicalPath(path);
   free(path);
   return canon_path;
 }
 
 }  // namespace bin
 }  // namespace dart
 
 #endif  // defined(TARGET_OS_MACOS)