On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 19:53 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Gunther Piez <gpiez@xxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Am Montag, 1. August 2005 02:04 schrieb Ian Lance Taylor:
> > > Gunther Piez <gpiez@xxxxxx> writes:
> > > > struct uniform {
> > > > uniform() {
> > > > cout << "A variable called " << __PRETTY_VARNAME__ << " was just
> > > > instantinated (sp)" << endl;
> > > > }
> > > > };
>
> ...
>
> > Maybe it is possible to use the debugging information somehow? At least the
> > debugger usually knows the names of variables.
>
> Maybe it is possible, but nothing straightforward comes to mind.
You still have the issue that you need to have all the *actual* callers
in front of you, so you'd have to process debug info on the fly if you
were dlopen'ing stuff like plugins.
> Remember that the debugger doesn't know the name within
> uniform::uniform. It only knows the name if you go up the stack frame
> to the caller.
>
> Ian
