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Set the category of this metric description to the object at the specified `category` address. The behavior is undefined unless `category` remains valid for the lifetime of this object.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balm_metricdescription.h>`

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void
setCategory(xref:BloombergLP/balm/Category.adoc[Category] const* category);
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