Primitives

Support Functions 3
This chapter describes the Intel ® IPP support functions that are used to:
• retrieve information about the current Intel IPP software version
• get a brief explanation of the returned status codes
• allocate and free memory that is needed for the operation of other Intel IPP image and video processing
functions.
Version Information Function
This function returns the version number and other information about the active Intel IPP image processing
software.
GetLibVersion
Returns information about the used version of Intel
IPP software for image processing.
Syntax
const IppLibraryVersion* ippiGetLibVersion(void);
Include Files
ippi.h
Domain Dependencies
Headers: ippcore.h, ippvm.h, ipps.h
Libraries: ippcore.lib, ippvm.lib, ipps.lib
Description
This function returns a pointer to a static data structure IppLibraryVersion that contains information
about the current version of Intel IPP for image processing. You need not release memory referenced by the
returned pointer, as it points to a static variable. The following fields of the IppLibraryVersion structure
are available:
major
minor
majorBuild
build
targetCpu[4]
Name
the major number of the current library version
the minor number of the current library version
the number of builds of the major version
current build number
Intel ® processor.
the name of the current library version
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