Hi, I have been porting an application from perfctr (and also from AIX with bos.pmapi) to perfmon2. I was looking for something like a "short description", that was available for the other two platforms. More precisely I was looking for a two to six word string, that is more informative than the name of the event, but shorter than the description, which can span several lines.
I was looking in the header files perfmon.h and pfmlib.h, but couldn't find anything. I worked around by writing a string manipulation subroutine that took the description returned by pfm_get_event_description, removed initial "Number of" and "Total number of", and chopped off the string at the first "." or ",". Not surprisingly, my mileage varied. Any better solution that that ? If not there, could it be added to the libpfm API ? Having said this, I really appreciate the detailed descriptions, as they are very precise. But I am looking for the choice between short and detailed. -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen/Best Regards Dr. Christoph Pospiech High Performance & Parallel Computing Advanced Computing Technology Center Phone +49-351-86269826, eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile +49-171 765 5871 IBM Deutschland GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Hans Ulrich Maerki Geschäftsführung: Martin Jetter (Vorsitzender), Rudolf Bauer, Christian Diedrich, Christoph Grandpierre, Matthias Hartmann, Thomas Fell, Michael Diemer Sitz der Gesellschaft: Stuttgart Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 14562 WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 99369940 _______________________________________________ perfmon mailing list [email protected] http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/perfmon/
