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#ifndef __TYPEINFO_H
#define __TYPEINFO_H

#include <typeinfo>
#include <string>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <cstdlib>

#if defined( __GNUG__ ) && defined( __GLIBCXX__ )

#include <cxxabi.h>

std::string demangle( const std::type_info &info )
{
	enum { BUFLEN = 200 };
	char *buf;
	std::size_t buflen = BUFLEN;
	int status;
	char *res;
	
	// pass a malloced buffer (required by cxa_demangle)
	buf = (char *)malloc( BUFLEN );
	
	// res may point to buf or be realloced depending on whether the
	// demangling had enough space or not
	res = __cxxabiv1::__cxa_demangle( info.name( ), buf, &buflen, &status );
	
	// throw exception if this goes wrong, because we don't want to have
	// have code reacting on failed demangling or wrong type information!
	if( status != 0 || res == NULL ) {
		throw std::runtime_error( "__cxa_demangle failed!" );
	}
	
	// construct string on stack and return it, free original buffer
	std::string s( res );
	free( res );
	
	return s;
}
	
#else

#ifdef _WIN32

// TODO: maybe extract into a generic stringutils module
void replaceAll( std::string &s, const std::string &from, const std::string &to )
{
	if( from.empty( ) ) {
		return;
	}
	
	size_t pos = 0;
	while( ( pos = s.find( from, pos ) ) != std::string::npos ) {
		s.replace( pos, from.length( ), to );
		pos += to.length( );
	}
}

std::string demangle( const std::type_info &info )
{
	std::string name = info.name( );
	
	// MSVC marks metatypes, nice, but gcc doesn't, falling
	// back as we can't do the same for gcc
	replaceAll( name, "class ", "" );
	// TODO: much more to follow, this is currently just enough
	// for the module registry structure with base class
	// signature only
	
	return name;
}

#else

#error "type.name() demangling not implemented!"

#endif // _WIN32


#endif // defined( __GNUG__ ) && defined( __GLIBCXX__ )

#endif // __TYPEINFO_H