I have to access C++ symbols in multiple places through their linker names and
wondered if there is something more maintainable than having
to "brain-mangle" the names? What I would need is a builtin that transforms a
name into its mangled representation as string at compile-time.
Essentially I would like to replace something like
__asm__(".set _ZN5media11colorspaces11YUV_CCIR601E,
_ZN5media11colorspaces3YUVE\n"));
with
__asm__(".set " __mangle__(media::colorspaces::YUV_CCIR601E) ","
__mangle__(media::colorspace::YUV) "\n");
(to create a symbol alias) or
dlsym(hdl, "_ZN5media11colorspaces3YUVE");
with
dlsym(hdl, __mangle__(media::colorspaces::YUV));
As far as I could find the only assistance provided with name-mangling is
run-time and only deals with the inverse problem. Does something like this
exist (or is there a good reason why it *doesn't* exist and I should not be
doing what I do?)
--
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders while computer scientists stand
on each other's toes.
-- Richard Hamming
