consider reflection uses/implementations

adamfk / c-filter-chain

C Filter Chain suitable for real time embedded systems

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consider reflection uses/implementations #22

Open adamfk opened 6 years ago

adamfk commented 6 years ago

knowing what fields are inside a filter Block would allow stricter unit tests (against layout changes), as well as significantly improve BlockChain diagram rendering.

adamfk commented 6 years ago

Would also be very useful if need to generate own bindings or conversions for Emscripten. Embind has lots of issues with raw pointers.

potential libraries:

https://github.com/rttrorg/rttr
https://github.com/billyquith/ponder
https://github.com/bytemaster/boost_reflect

Another alternative would be "scraping" decorated source files to determine their contents instead. gcc supports a preprocessor flag that keeps comments that could be helpful.