HP Caliper Advisor Rule Writer Guide
Table B-24 Metrics Available for Return by Run Information Accessor Functions (continued)
Description of What Is ReturnedReturn TypeMetric
Returns a list of all images (main executable and shared libraries
/ load modules) that were loaded. The return value is a tuple of
tuples, each of the following form:
(pathname, included_flag, start_address,
end_address)
where pathname is the full path name of the image,
included_flag is True if the image was included in the
measurements, and start_address and end_address is the
address range of the image. The main image is always the first
tuple. Note that the ecount measurement does not record any
of the images used.
HP Caliper report sections: Load Modules Included and Load
Modules Excluded.
tupleIMAGES
The command string used to invoke the executable.
HP Caliper report section: Target Application Invocation.
stringINVOCATION
The date and time that the executable was last modified. The
value is in “Unix time” (the number of seconds since 1/1/1970
00:00:00 GMT).
HP Caliper report section: Target Last Modified.
integerLAST_MODIFIED
The name of the system used for the measurement.
HP Caliper report section: Processor Information Machine name.
stringMACHINE_NAME
The full path of the measurement configuration file used for the
measurement run.
HP Caliper report section: Run Information Configuration.
stringMEASUREMENT_NAME
The memory model of the executable. The value will be one of
the following: ILP32 or LP64.
HP Caliper report section: Target Application Memory model.
stringMEMORY_MODEL
The full operating system version string of the measurement
system.
HP Caliper report section: Run Information OS.
stringOS_VERSION
The simple name of the measured process’s parent. The value
will be an empty string (‘’) if there is no parent process or if HP
Caliper is the parent.
stringPARENT_NAME
The process ID number (PID) of the measured process’s parent.
The value will be –1 if there is no parent process or if HP Caliper
is the parent.
integerPARENT_PID
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