Re: Decode output from typeid().name()

[Pedro Lamarão]

On 17 fev, 12:13, "C.W.Holeman II" <cwhii_google_s...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Pedro Lamarão wrote:
> > On 16 fev, 20:27, "C.W.Holeman II" <cwhii_google_s...@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
>
> >> Is there a reference that decodes the output from typeid().name()?
>
> > The C++ Standard does not specify the value of that expression.
> > It could very well be the null string in a conforming specification.
>
> Which is the reason I posted to gnu.g++.help not c++.

Good point.

GCC implements the Itanium C++ ABI, specified here:

http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/abi.html

You will see that, contrary to my expectation, this specification does
in fact guarantee some form to that expression.
Search for the demangler API.

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 P.