Re: [boost] [Boost-users] [typeindex v3.0] Peer review begins Mon 21st ends Wed 30th

On Sunday 27 April 2014 13:02:41 Rob Stewart wrote:

On April 27, 2014 10:43:27 AM EDT, Andrey Semashev wrote:

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On Friday 25 April 2014 09:25:45 Dominique Devienne wrote:

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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.