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Abstract: Reflection is an important tool for serializing objects, creating mock objects for testing, creating object relational mappings and manyother cases. Without standardized C compile-time reflection these tasks are repetitive and error-prone. Therefore the ISO C started a study group (SG7) to examine the possibilities of compile-time reflectionin C . With compile-time reflection it would be possible to have a generic library for serialization or for object relational mappings. There are several potential notions about how to approach this kind of reflection, like introducing high-level new language elements like static for,or creating library interfaces which are hiding compiler intrinsics for each specifi c rfflection subtask. In this paper an alternative C compile-time reflection approach is discussed in favor of fi nding a generic solution for this task. The approach is based on introducing new library elements. Under the hood these library element implementations have to be compiler speci fic intrinsics (compilerspeci c expressions). With these expressions, variables and functions could be declared and defi ned from results of reflection queries.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classi cation. 68N15.
1998 CR Categories and Descriptors. D.3.3 [Programming Languages]: Languages
Constructs and Features - Classes and objects.
Key words and phrases. C++, Reflection, Unit test. |
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