alias symbol name

[Radu]

On Tuesday, 26 June 2018 at 12:19:16 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 26, 2018 11:28:11 Radu via Digitalmars-d-learn 
> wrote:
>> > [...]
>>
>> Ha! :) yeah I was pretty sure this will not work.
>>
>> I'm looking to generate some custom wrappers and knowing when 
>> something is really `size_t` is important, I have a backup 
>> plan, but having a compiler trait to get an alias symbol name 
>> would be great. Maybe this is worthy an enhancement request?
>
> Feel free. I have no idea how likely it is to ever be 
> implemented.
>
> However, if your custom wrappers are generated at compilation 
> time rather than generated as files to be compiled later, then 
> it's unnecessary to know whether an alias was used, since then 
> you'd just use the exact type being used for that particular 
> compilation.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Code generation is at compile time and the target is C code, so 
it is important to keep the type `size_t` rather than `uint` or 
`ulong` for obvious reasons.

I will submit and issue for a new trait.