Question

Let say we have a class MyClass that has and a memberfunc().
An object is created for this MyClass, say ObjA.

i.e MyClass ObjA;

ObjA calls memberfunc().

Can we get this name ‘ObjA’ inside memberfunc() programatically?

Note: I know how to get the type of the object, i.e ‘MyClass’, using RTTI (Run-Time Type Identification), the same is also explained by radman below.

EDIT:

If this is NOT POSSIBLE in c++, Is it possible in any other programming language?

EDIT2

Made some modification to the question as few were unable to interpret.

Answer 1

There are several issues here:

1. Objects don’t call anything, code does.
2. Objects don’t have a name. An object is usually assigned to a variable, often to more than one variable, often to no variable at all, such as an array element.
3. Getting access to the call stack might give you some idea of the calling class that owns the code that called you, but even this usually requires a level of introspection that goes beyond the reflection facilities of most languages.
   • Python is a notable exception. It can give you the stack to walk and figure out lots of interesting things. C++ won’t.

I have seen C++ libraries that crack open the stack (this is very non-portable, by the way) and thus give code the ability to figure stuff out like, “Who called me?” but I haven’t used that stuff for years.