Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 01:48:45PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > Essentially, I would like to do something like: >> > >> > void *bar = (void *)_ZTV3foo; >> > >> > Except I only know "foo", and it may be namespaced. So is there some way >> > to have g++ do the mangling with a macro or something else? >> >> There is no macro that does mangling, no. >> >> Why not simply >> >> void *bar = &foo; > > I want a pointer to the vtable. Oh, right, missed that. If you have an instance of the type, you could use pointer manipulation and the C++ ABI (http://codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/). But there isn't any direct way to get that pointer, or the name of the vtable. Ian