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PMC_INIT(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual PMC_INIT(3)
NAME pmc_init - initialize library
LIBRARY Performance Counters Library (libpmc, -lpmc)
SYNOPSIS #include <pmc.h>
int pmc_init(void);
DESCRIPTION Function pmc_init() initializes the PMC library. This function must be called before any of the other functions in the library.
RETURN VALUES The pmc_init() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS A call to pmc_init() may fail with the following errors:
[ENOENT] The hwpmc(4) module was not found in the kernel.
[EPROGMISMATCH] The library's version number did not match that expected by hwpmc(4).
[ENXIO] PMC hardware on this system is unsupported.
SEE ALSO pmc(3), hwpmc(4)
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 November 24, 2007 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11