Hello everyone, I was wondering if there was a package that would give me man pages for the C standard library (I use musl, but generics would be best if there would even be a difference). I am not wanting the biggest, largest package; I myself am big on minimalism. Thanks in advance.

I haven't used MUSL and read of its site this morning says it is intended to be light-weight so it may be it doesn't have a package for man pages like other distros.

There are man pages on line that are generally applicable to most distros. For Linux libc is a good start. You can find that man page at a couple of places:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/libc.7.html
https://linux.die.net/man/7/libc

You can also see The GNU C Library Reference Manual

I don't really understand what do you need:
man 3 printf
man 3 <c standard library function>
should work

It won't if he hasn't got glibc installed. Maybe, as suggested by MensaWater, musl doesn't come with man pages.

Two possibilities come to mind:
1) Go to the GNU site and download the C library manual.
2) Download glibc source and just build and install the man pages.

They are also available online.

I actually prefer to get the man pages from the machine where I'm using the tools to build my code from. The reason being is that the man pages should correspond with the library versions which I have installed on that machine. Yes, this becomes complicated when you consider that you may be cross compiling, but still when you have the cross compilation libraries installed, you also get the man pages for it.

There are sometimes subtle differences with various packages that may be privately provided by a manufacturer. Way back when, things like busybox did not use all conventional capabilities for certain functions, so if you had something which was being provided by busybox, you needed to understand that it wouldn't do all the standard things, if that happened to apply there.

Mixed bag, I know, but if I'm compiling on a Linux system, using a certain set of tools, I view the man pages I need "on" that system.

The C standard library, of course, is STANDARD, so all of the man pages in the (2) and (3) sections will apply to it. You can get a standard set of man pages from http://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/l...ocs/man-pages/.

That's how I check 'em! There are man pages for musl . Thank you, sorry I am new to having man pages for my coding language.