get_type_name

get_type_name is a single header file which is completely standalone C++98 compatible and C++11 constexpr. does not use any standard library headers and provides a single function zxshady::get_type_name<T>() which gets the name of a type for GCC,Clang,MSVC and possibly other compilers who support either PRETTY_FUNCTION or FUNSIG macros

Examples:

constexpr zxshady::get_type_name_result name = zxshady::get_type_name<int>(); 
// name is of type zxshady::get_type_name_result which has a conversion operator to any type
// that supports construction from const char* and Container::size_type of the type


for(auto c : name) { // supports forward-iterators not reverse iterators though
    std::printf("%c",c); 
}
std::string string = name; // converts to string implicitly
std::string string2 = name.to<std::string>(); // using to method

struct MyString{
    ...
    using size_type = std::size_t; // this is a important the conversion functions uses this alias
    MyString(const char* s, std::size_t n);
};

MyString mystr = name; // works 

tested on godbolt.org on every compiler version there.

Possible Use cases

Debugging meta programs by printing the types of templates

Extra information when logging and assertion.

Cool

[NOTE] this won't work for types longer than 65536 characters if using a 16-bit-int that sucks I know. NOTE.