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| author | jkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-07-21 06:44:54 +0000 |
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| committer | jkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-07-21 06:44:54 +0000 |
| commit | d27c2fdc745db9021ebd3870695829fd1242cbbf (patch) | |
| tree | a7ff4ca058daef9c914805d5bf05ade3d3c044c2 /lib/libpmc/pmc.3 | |
| parent | fe7e4c58e15881393372ebd4f36dda731e8790c8 (diff) | |
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Add COMPATIBILITY and HISTORY sections.
MFC after: 3 days
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libpmc/pmc.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libpmc/pmc.3 | 22 |
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diff --git a/lib/libpmc/pmc.3 b/lib/libpmc/pmc.3 index 81d3e69..a3925d8 100644 --- a/lib/libpmc/pmc.3 +++ b/lib/libpmc/pmc.3 @@ -3263,6 +3263,23 @@ if successful; otherwise the value is returned and the global variable .Va errno is set to indicate the error. +.Sh COMPATIBILITY +The interface between the +.Xr pmc 3 +library and the +.Xr hwpmc 4 +driver is intended to be private to the implementation and may +change. +In order to ease forward compatibility with future versions of the +.Xr hwpmc 4 +driver, applications are urged to dynamically link with the +.Xr pmc 3 +library. +.Pp +The +.Xr pmc 3 +API is +.Ud .Sh ERRORS A call to .Fn pmc_init @@ -3384,6 +3401,11 @@ driver. .Xr hwpmc 4 , .Xr pmccontrol 8 , .Xr pmcstat 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Xr pmc 3 +library first appeared in +.Fx 6.0 . .Sh BUGS The information returned by .Fn pmc_cpuinfo , |
