I have the following issue here: I write (refactor) a logger and am trying to use the run time type identification mechanism of C++, specifically typeid to get the runtime type information of the class that has just called the logger. This goes into a macro like:
#define debug() Streamer(__FILE__, __FUNCTION__, typeid(this).name(), LOG_DEBUG)
where Streamer is a class overloading the operator << to obtain the required streaming features such as debug() << "message " << 16; etc...
The only problem is when I call the debug() macro from a static function. Because then the typeid(this) goes crazy and complains very correctly that a static method has no this.
I would like to hear your opinion and maybe some code snippets about obtaining the class as a string containing the static method which tries to log.
Cheers, f.