DwmTypeName.hh File Reference

Hackish support for getting the name of a given object's type, since std::type_info::name() returns a mangled name (or a string of length 1 for builtin types). More...

#include <cxxabi.h>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <string>
#include <typeinfo>

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Functions
std::string	Dwm::BuiltinTypeName (const std::type_info &typeInfo)
	Returns a string holding the demangled name for the given typeInfo.
template<typename T >
std::string	Dwm::BuiltinTypeName ()
	Returns the name of type T.
template<typename T >
std::string	Dwm::TypeName (const T &x)
	Returns the name of type T.
template<typename T >
std::string	Dwm::TypeNameNoNamespace (const T &x)
	Returns the name of type T, sans its namespace.
template<typename T >
std::string	Dwm::TypeName ()
	Returns the name of type T.

Detailed Description

Hackish support for getting the name of a given object's type, since std::type_info::name() returns a mangled name (or a string of length 1 for builtin types).

Function Documentation

BuiltinTypeName()

std::string Dwm::BuiltinTypeName

(

const std::type_info &

typeInfo

)

Returns a string holding the demangled name for the given typeInfo.

For builtin types, we return the literal name by doing a lookup in a map that's set up in this function.

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