Why am I getting "No manual entry for gcc" [closed]

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When I enter:

man gcc

I get "No manual entry for gcc". The same thing happens with g++. Why am I getting this and how can I fix it?

I have both gcc and g++ but it just doesn't seem to work when I use it on the Cygwin terminal. I'm on Windows.

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You don't have the help files (aka man pages) for gcc or g++ installed in cygwin. You need to re-run the cygwin setup*.exe and select it to be installed. I'm not sure which package it is though.