Re: Good grief Charlie Brown

[Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>]

On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 11:28 -0500, Jim Anderson via Gcc wrote:
> 1) I could not find any place to download the man page. I lost my 
> internet connect and I have not man page :(

You didn't say what platform you're working on, nor how you obtained
the GCC that you are using, but recall that the GCC team doesn't
publish already-built binary packages.  If you built your own version
of GCC from source, then all the documentation was contained with the
source code.

If you didn't build it yourself and instead installed a pre-built
version, then you need to discuss this with the group that provided
that pre-built version: the GCC development team can't help.  Every
binary package of GCC I've ever heard of comes with at least the man
page (some distributions bundle the full documentation separately from
the compiler but they all include the man page with the compiler).

Did you try just running "man gcc" (assuming you are on a POSIX-type
system)?

> 2) How over pervasive gcc has become. It appears to be everything for
> everybody for every environment possible.
> 
> I guess this is a good think, but I personally think not!

I guess if you were one of the "everybody" needing "everything" on
"every" environment, instead of you needing what you need in your
environment, you might think differently!