Strange behaviour of the typeid operator?

Question

Using XCode 3.2.3 (64-bit), I get following strange output. What am I doing wrong?

#include <iostream>
#include <typeinfo>

struct student {

};

int main()  
{  
    int i;
    student obj;

    std::cout << typeid(i).name() << "\n";
    std::cout << typeid(obj).name() << "\n";

    return 0;
}

Output:

i  
7student

Answer 1

What's going on is nothing special. Just that typeid doesn't promise to return the "original" name of the type, but just a name.

The function returns an implementation-defined string, which, if you're lucky, is recognizable, but it makes no promise of that.