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.TH QMC 3 "SGI" "Performance Co-Pilot"
.SH NAME
\f3QMC\f1 \- library for managing groups of Performance Co-Pilot metrics
.SH "C++ SYNOPSIS"
.ft 3
#include <QMC.h>
.sp
CC ... \-lqmc \-lpcp
.ft 1
.SH DESCRIPTION
The Qt-based Performance Metrics Class
.RB ( QMC )
class library is a collection of C++ classes for managing a large set of
performance metrics from a variety of sources.  This library is built over
.BR PMAPI (3).
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
Error messages are generated using
.BR pmprintf (3)
but are not flushed. It is the responsibility of the user to call
.BR pmflush (3)
to output any messages.
.PP
Additional diagnostics may be activated by adding the option
.B pmc
to the global debugging specification, as described in
.BR pmSetDebug (3).
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR PMAPI (3),
.BR QmcContext (3),
.BR QmcDesc (3),
.BR QmcGroup (3),
.BR QmcIndom (3),
.BR QmcMetric (3),
.BR QmcSource (3),
.BR pmflush (3)
and
.BR pmprintf (3).