1PMCPP(1) General Commands Manual PMCPP(1)
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6 pmcpp - simple preprocessor for the Performance Co-Pilot
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9 pmcpp [-Prs] [-D name[=value] ...] [-I dir ...] [infile]
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12 pmcpp provides a very simple pre-processor originally designed for
13 manipulating Performance Metric Name Space (PMNS) files for the Perfor‐
14 mance Co-Pilot (PCP), but later generalized to provide conditional
15 blocks, include file processing, in-line shell command execution and
16 macro substitution for arbitrary files. It is most commonly used
17 internally to process the PMNS file(s) after pmLoadNameSpace(3) or
18 pmLoadASCIINameSpace(3) is called and to pre-process the configuration
19 files for pmlogger(1).
20 Input lines are read from infile (or standard input if infile is not
22 specified), processed and written to standard output.
23 All C-style comments of the form /* ... */ are stripped from the input
25 stream.
26 There are no predefined macros for pmcpp although macros may be defined
28 on the command line using the -D option, where name and value must fol‐
29 low the same rules as described below for the #define directive.
30 pmcpp accepts the following directives in the input stream (like
32 cpp(1)):
33 · #include "filename"
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36 #include <filename>
37 In either case the directory search path for filename tries filename
38 first, then the directory for the command line infile (if any), fol‐
39 lowed by any directories named in -I command line arguments, and
40 finally the $PCP_VAR_DIR/pmns directory (the latter is for backwards
41 compatibility with earlier versions of pmcpp and the implied used
42 from pmLoadASCIINameSpace(3)). #include directives may be nested,
43 up to a maximum depth of 5.
44 · #shell "command"
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47 #shell 'command'
48 The shell command will be executed and the standard output is
49 inserted into the stream of data to be processed by pmcpp. Func‐
50 tionally this is similar to a #include directive, except input lines
51 are read from a command rather than a file. The #shell directive is
52 most useful for including or excluding #define or #undef directives
53 based on run-time logic in the command.
54 · #define name value
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57 #define name "value"
58 or
59 #define name 'value'
60 Defines a value for the macro name which must be a valid C-style
61 name, so leading alphabetic or underscore followed by zero or more
62 alphanumerics or underscores. value is optional (and defaults to an
63 empty string). There is no character escape mechanism, but either
64 single quotes or double quotes may be used to define a value with
65 special characters or embedded horizontal white space (no newlines).
66 · #undef name
68 Removes the macro definition, if any, for name.
69 · #ifdef name
71 ...
72 #endif
73 or
74 #ifndef name
75 ...
76 #endif
77 The enclosing lines will be stripped or included, depending if the
78 macro name is defined or not.
79 · #else
81 Within a #ifdef or #ifndef block, #else may be used to delimit lines
82 to be included if the preceding ``if'' condition is false.
83 Macro substitution is achieved by breaking the input stream into words
85 separated by white space or characters that are not valid in a macro
86 name, i.e. not alphanumeric and not underscore. Each word is checked
87 and if it matches a macro name, the word is replaced by the macro
88 value, otherwise the word is unchanged.
89 There is generally one output line for each input line, although the
91 line may be empty if the text has been stripped due to the handling of
92 comments or conditional directives. When there is a change in the
93 input stream, an additional output line is generated of the form:
94 # lineno "filename"
96 to indicate the following line of output corresponds to line number
98 lineno of the input file filename.
99 The -P argument suppresses the generation of these linemarker lines.
101 The -s argument changes the expected input style from C-like to shell-
103 like (where # is a comment prefix). This forces the following changes
104 in pmcpp behaviour:
105 · The control prefix character changes from # to %, so %include for
106 example.
107 · No comment stripping is performed.
108 To provide finer control of macro expansion, the -r option restricts
110 macro substitution to words that match the patterns #name or #{name} or
111 if -s is specified, then %name or %{name}. In this mode, the macro
112 name alone in the input stream will never be expanded, however in con‐
113 trol lines (like #ifdef) the macro name should appear alone with out
114 the prefix character or the curly braces (refer to the EXAMPLES below).
115 Important cpp(1) features that are not supported by pmcpp include:
117 · Macros with parameters - the pmcpp macros support only parameterless
118 string substitution.
119 · #if expr
120 ...
121 #endif
122 · Nested use of #ifdef or #ifndef.
123 · Stripping C++ style comments, as in // comment.
124 · Error recovery - the first error encountered by pmcpp will be fatal.
125 · cpp(1) command line options like -o, -W, -U, and -x.
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128 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
129 │Command: pmcpp │
130 ├───────────────────────┬─────────────────────┤
131 │Input │ Output │
132 ├───────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
133 │ │ # 1 "<stdin>" │
134 │#define MYDOMAIN 27 │ │
135 │ │ │
136 │root { │ root { │
137 │ foo MYDOMAIN:0:0 │ foo 27:0:0 │
138 │} │ } │
139 └───────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
140 For the following examples, the file frequencies contains the lines:
141 %define dk_freq 1minute
142 %define cpu_freq '15 sec'
143 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
145 │Command: pmcpp -rs │
146 ├──────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┤
147 │Input │ Output │
148 ├──────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┤
149 │# get logging frequencies │ # get logging frequencies │
150 │# e.g. dk_freq macro │ # e.g. dk_freq macro │
151 │%include "frequencies" │ │
152 │ │ │
153 │log mandatory on %dk_freq { │ log mandatory on 1minute { │
154 │ disk.dev │ disk.dev │
155 │} │ } │
156 │ │ │
157 │# note no % for want_cpu here │ # note no % for want_cpu here │
158 │%ifdef want_cpu │ │
159 │%define cpu_pfx 'kernel.all.cpu.' │ │
160 │log mandatory on %cpu_freq { │ │
161 │ %{cpu_pfx}user │ │
162 │ %{cpu_pfx}sys │ │
163 │} │ │
164 │%endif │ │
165 └──────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┘
166 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
167 │Command: pmcpp -rs -Dwant_cpu │
168 ├──────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┤
169 │Input │ Output │
170 ├──────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┤
171 │# get logging frequencies │ # get logging frequencies │
172 │# e.g. dk_freq macro │ # e.g. dk_freq macro │
173 │%include "frequencies" │ │
174 │ │ │
175 │log mandatory on %dk_freq { │ log mandatory on 1minute { │
176 │ disk.dev │ disk.dev │
177 │} │ } │
178 │ │ │
179 │# note no % for want_cpu here │ # note no % for want_cpu here │
180 │%ifdef want_cpu │ │
181 │%define cpu_pfx 'kernel.all.cpu.' │ │
182 │log mandatory on %cpu_freq { │ log mandatory on 15 sec { │
183 │ %{cpu_pfx}user │ kernel.all.cpu.user │
184 │ %{cpu_pfx}sys │ kernel.all.cpu.sys │
185 │} │ } │
186 │%endif │ │
187 └──────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┘
189 Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the
190 file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the file
191 /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. The
192 $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration
193 file, as described in pcp.conf(5).
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196 cpp(1), pmLoadASCIINameSpace(3), pmLoadNameSpace(3), pmns(5),
197 pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).
198Performance Co-Pilot PMCPP(1)