Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost-users] [typeindex v3.0] Peer review begins Mon 21st ends Wed 30th
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-04-27 13:47:22
On Sunday 27 April 2014 13:02:41 Rob Stewart wrote:
> On April 27, 2014 10:43:27 AM EDT, Andrey Semashev
<andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >On Friday 25 April 2014 09:25:45 Dominique Devienne wrote:
> >> But what bothered me a little was the note about the fact that
> >> pretty_name() was not consistent across platforms/compilers.
> >
> >There is generally no way to obtain a portable type name. Each compiler
> >and
> >platform has its own mangling rules and there are no rules for the
> >demangled
> >type names whatsoever.
>
> The language standard specifies rules for the demangled names, does it not?
No. The type_info::name() method returns some implementation-defined string
with no guarantees on its format. __func__ also has unspecified format. To my
knowledge, there are no other sources of type name strings in the language.