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The argp_help Function

Normally programs using argp need not worry too much about printing argument-usage-type help messages, because the standard --help option is handled automatically by argp, and the typical error cases can be handled using argp_usage and argp_error (see Argp Helper Functions). However, if it's desirable to print a standard help message in some context other than parsing the program options, argp offers the argp_help interface.

void argp_help (const struct argp *argp, FILE *stream, unsigned flags, char *name) Function
Output a help message for the argp parser argp to stream. What sort of messages is printed is determined by flags. Any options such as --help that are implemented automatically by argp itself will not be present in the help output; for this reason, it is better to use argp_state_help if calling from within an argp parser function. See Argp Helper Functions.