Display type name in TEMPLATE_LIST_TEST_CASE output #2537
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Description
Currentlly, when using
TEMPLATE_LIST_TEST_CASE
to create a templated test case, the test output refers to each type in the list by index:This is easy to handle when the type list contains few elements, but does not scale very well to long type lists, and requires looking at the test code to figure out which index corresponds to which type. This PR changes the output to also show the name of the type:
This is currently done using
typeid(T).name()
. In libstdc++, the name returned by this function is mangled, so we also have to de-mangle it using standard compiler functions. On MSVC no de-mangling is required. I don't know about other compilers.There are other options available to get a human-readable name for a type, including macro tricks with
__PRETTY_FUNCTION__
et al. I figured these were less portable, so shied away from them.GitHub Issues
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