assembler man pages ?

[Doug Evans]

Eric Christopher writes:
 > 
 > On Sep 1, 2005, at 6:29 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
 > 
 > > i'm wondering if a set of man pages exist for assembly instructions  
 > > akin to
 > > the man-pages package for the C library ...
 > >
 > > ive looked through the binutils info/texi files and they cover a  
 > > lot of
 > > binutils-related stuff, but nothing in terms of a language  
 > > reference ...
 > >
 > > for example, say i wanted quick info on the 'jne' instruction, i  
 > > would do `man
 > > jne` and get back a reference page similar to `man 2 close`
 > 
 > Nope. For this it's best to use the processor manual from the vendor.

I agree the best choice is the vendor's manual.
For cgen ports there is the cgen-generated html manual though.
Kinda handy sometimes (well, I like it anyway :-)).

One could certainly write a generator for man pages if one wanted to.
And was suffering from insomnia!