Hello all,
A friend of mine is attempting to display the type of a template
parameter (for whatever reason) and has used -fno-rtti, it makes sense
that typeid doesn't work (from <typeinfo>) because there is no type id.
However I must say I find it shocking there is no mechanism that GCC
provides to do this. I do of course accept that there can be no (pure)
macro that can do this but the type of a variable is something that is
most certainly available at compile time.
I must say I find the usefulness of such a thing questionable but I do
not see this as a reason to not have "it". It refers to a "function"
(I'm not sure what to call it, I dare not say macro) that takes an
expression and returns the name of the expressions type as a const char*.
Is there any reason it doesn't exist?
There is a work around where __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ may be used and then
parsed to find template parameters but this is an awful solution.
Alec
(Additional/extra question: how might one go about adding such a thing?
What would it look like?)
