Programmatic way to get variable name in C?

Question

I am developing a tool to dump data from variables. I need to dump the variable name, and also the values.

My solution: Store variable name as a string, and print th

Answer 1

Shorter way:

#define GET_VARIABLE_NAME(Variable) (#Variable)

test:

#include 
class MyClass {};


int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    int foo = 0;

    std::string var_name1 = GET_VARIABLE_NAME(foo);
     char* var_name2 = GET_VARIABLE_NAME(foo);
     char* var_name3 = GET_VARIABLE_NAME(MyClass);


    return 0;
}