Class name macro [duplicate]

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CLASS macro in C++

Hello, are there any ways to get name of class with macro like __FUNCTION__ for function name? The only ideas I have is inheriting some base class with pure virtual toString and define the names by hands eash time. Thanks.

Answer 1

It depends what exactly is the context. A rough equivalent to get the implementation defined internal name of the class could be to use typeid operator as shown. Note that the output is implementation defined.

typeid(yourclass).name()

Answer 2

Easiest is probably (to define a macro) calling some function to derive the class name from __FUNCTION__ (or __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ for GCC, or maybe even __FILE__).