From b8b2f5302756d3df350d3d597565fb8019f76cb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@cern.ch>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:32:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] vhdlpp: Added VType::get_generic_typename() method.

---
 vhdlpp/vtype.cc | 8 ++++++++
 vhdlpp/vtype.h  | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/vhdlpp/vtype.cc b/vhdlpp/vtype.cc
index 652c9047e..ea3341ce7 100644
--- a/vhdlpp/vtype.cc
+++ b/vhdlpp/vtype.cc
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 # include  "vtype.h"
 # include  "parse_types.h"
+# include  "compiler.h"
 # include  <map>
 # include  <typeinfo>
 # include  <cassert>
@@ -35,6 +36,13 @@ void VType::show(ostream&out) const
       write_to_stream(out);
 }
 
+perm_string VType::get_generic_typename() const
+{
+    char buf[16] = {0,};
+    snprintf(buf, 16, "type_%p", this);
+    return lex_strings.make(buf);
+}
+
 VTypePrimitive::VTypePrimitive(VTypePrimitive::type_t tt, bool packed)
 : type_(tt), packed_(packed)
 {
diff --git a/vhdlpp/vtype.h b/vhdlpp/vtype.h
index 9f761536a..5310e868a 100644
--- a/vhdlpp/vtype.h
+++ b/vhdlpp/vtype.h
@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ class VType {
 	// Returns true if the type has an undefined dimension.
       virtual bool is_unbounded() const { return false; }
 
+	// Returns a perm_string that can be used in automatically created
+	// typedefs (i.e. not ones defined by the user).
+      perm_string get_generic_typename() const;
+
     private:
       friend struct decl_t;
 	// This virtual method is called to emit the declaration. This