Retrieving a c++ class name programmatically

Question

I was wondering if it is possible in C++ to retrieve the name of a class in string form without having to hardcode it into a variable or a getter. I\'m aware that none of th

Answer 1

The typeid(obj).name() thing always gives the type of the variable as it was declared, not the actual type (class) of the object. If the variable obj is assigned to an instance of a subclass of the class that obj was declared as, typeid doesn't reveal that, unfortunately.