What Are Man Pages?

Man pages are online manual pages that describe the following topics:

• User commands
• Library interfaces and functions
• System calls
• File formats

Man pages contain syntax, usage, pointers to related commands or interfaces, and additional reference material.

Generally, the man pages are quick-reference material. For further details, refer to the manuals, release notes, and readme documents that are listed in the Sun Studio Information Center.

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Contents

Section	Title	Description
1	Sun Studio Command-Line Tools	Online reference manual pages for Sun Studio user commands, such as commands to invoke the compilers.
3	Collector and Memory Monitor Library Functions	Program interface descriptions for Performance Data Collector and Memory Monitor library functions.
3c++	Standard C++ Library	Program interface descriptions for Standard C++ Library classes and functions.
3cc4	C++ Compatibility Mode Libraries	Program interface descriptions for the Complex library, and the demangle, filebuf, fstream, interrupt, ios, stream, manip, queue, sbuf, and task classes and functions for C++ programs that are compiled using the compatibility mode option (-compat).
3f	Fortran Library Functions and Subroutines.	Program interface descriptions for the functions and subroutines that are in the Fortran runtime library.
3m	Mathematical Library Functions	Program interface descriptions for the floating point, math, and Sun math functions and constants.
3x	Runtime checking (RTC) API	Runtime Checking (RTC) API for the use of private memory allocators.
4	File Formats	Information about Sun Studio public files.

 

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Accessing Man Pages From the Command Line

You also can access a man page by typing the following at a command-line prompt:

% man name

For example, to access the man page for the Sun Studio C++ compiler, type the following:

% man CC

Note - The Sun Studio product man pages are not installed into the standard /usr/share/man directory. To access the Sun Studio man pages, you must have the Sun Studio man page directory in your MANPATH environment variable. For more information about the MANPATH variable, see the man(1) man page. For more information about setting your MANPATH variable to access this release, see the installation guide or your system administrator.

 

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