faux-folly/folly/Demangle.h

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#pragma once

#include <folly/FBString.h>

namespace folly {

/**
 * Return the demangled (prettyfied) version of a C++ type.
 *
 * This function tries to produce a human-readable type, but the type name will
 * be returned unchanged in case of error or if demangling isn't supported on
 * your system.
 *
 * Use for debugging -- do not rely on demangle() returning anything useful.
 *
 * This function may allocate memory (and therefore throw std::bad_alloc).
 */
fbstring demangle(const char* name);
inline fbstring demangle(const std::type_info& type) {
  return demangle(type.name());
}

/**
 * Return the demangled (prettyfied) version of a C++ type in a user-provided
 * buffer.
 *
 * The semantics are the same as for snprintf or strlcpy: bufSize is the size
 * of the buffer, the string is always null-terminated, and the return value is
 * the number of characters (not including the null terminator) that would have
 * been written if the buffer was big enough. (So a return value >= bufSize
 * indicates that the output was truncated)
 *
 * This function does not allocate memory and is async-signal-safe.
 *
 * Note that the underlying function for the fbstring-returning demangle is
 * somewhat standard (abi::__cxa_demangle, which uses malloc), the underlying
 * function for this version is less so (cplus_demangle_v3_callback from
 * libiberty), so it is possible for the fbstring version to work, while this
 * version returns the original, mangled name.
 */
size_t demangle(const char* name, char* buf, size_t bufSize);
inline size_t demangle(const std::type_info& type, char* buf, size_t bufSize) {
  return demangle(type.name(), buf, bufSize);
}

}