NAME¶

get information about a specific software component

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Detailed Description¶

@param cidx
    Component index
This function returns a pointer to a structure containing detailed 
information about a specific software component in the PAPI library. 
This includes versioning information, preset and native event 
information, and more. 
For full details, see @ref PAPI_component_info_t. 
@par Examples:

        const PAPI_component_info_t *cmpinfo = NULL;
        if (PAPI_library_init(PAPI_VER_CURRENT) != PAPI_VER_CURRENT)
        exit(1);
        if ((cmpinfo = PAPI_get_component_info(0)) == NULL)
        exit(1);
        printf("This component supports %d Preset Events and %d Native events.0,
    cmpinfo->num_preset_events, cmpinfo->num_native_events);
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