[erlang-questions] Finding a way to get function name from local function reference

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Richard Carlsson <richardc@REDACTED> wrote:
> This is due to a compiler implementation detail (broken, imho), where
> a local function reference "fun foo/N" is actually compiled by rewriting
> it as "fun (...) -> foo(...) end", which means that the name you get
> from fun_info() is the generated internal name for the new anonymous
> function. The name "foo" is hidden and there is nothing you can do
> to get hold of it. It would be nice if the compiler was changed to
> generate direct references instead of wrapping them like this.

There is (or used to be) a subtle detail in the run-time systems that makes it
necessary to introduce a wrapper function. At the moment I don't
remember exactly what the detail is (was), but I'll investigate and see
if I can do something about it in R13.

/Bjorn

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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB