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(ehab) writes:

> How can I get man pages for GCC commands like get or putc or getc ...etc?

1. These are not GCC-specific. They are part of the standard C
programming language's library.

2. These are not "commands". C does not have commands. They are
functions.

3. "man <name>"
--
int main(void){char p[]="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuv wxyz.\
\n",*q="kl BIcNBFr.NKEzjwCIxNJC";int i=sizeof p/2;char *strchr();int putchar(\
);while(*q){i+=strchr(p,*q++)-p;if(i>=(int)sizeof p)i-=sizeof p-1;putchar(p[i]\
);}return 0;}

Ben Pfaff wrote:

> C does not have commands.

C is an imperative programming language.
It *does* have commands.
Every assignment statement is a command.
Every invocation of a "void" function is a command.

"E. Robert Tisdale" wrote:
>
> Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> > C does not have commands.
>
> C is an imperative programming language.
> It *does* have commands.

The only commands you can invoke in C are via the system() function.

> Every assignment statement is a command.
> Every invocation of a "void" function is a command.

If that were true, it would be possible to pass invocations of "void"
functions to the command processor via a system() call. Please
demonstrate this, in a way that will work with any reasonably conforming
ISO C90 or C99 implementation.

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E. Robert Tisdale wrote:

> Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
>> C does not have commands.
>
> C is an imperative programming language.
> It *does* have commands.

It does not use that terminology. It has never, despite its ancestry,
used that terminology. Using that terminology is misleading outside
some cleary-defined contexts, no matter how much more natural you
might find it.

> Every assignment statement is a command.
> Every invocation of a "void" function is a command.

That's an interesting hypothesis, but without a definition of "command"
it's a bit hard to test. And, so far as I know, the C standard doesn't
give us a definition for "command" that applies to C constructs.

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Chris Dollin wrote:
> E. Robert Tisdale wrote:
>
>
>>Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>
>>
>>>C does not have commands.
>>
>>C is an imperative programming language.
>>It *does* have commands.
>

I believe being an imperative programming language means that
computation is done by applying static code to data. I also think
the code is called operations, not commands. I might be wrong
though.

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