Custom formatter for flag 't', new Utils::GetThreadName()

openVulkanoCpp/Base/Utils.cpp

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 #include <pthread.h>
 #endif
 #include <fstream>
+#include <string>
+#include <locale>
+#include <codecvt>
 
 namespace OpenVulkano
 {
@@ -28,6 +31,26 @@ namespace OpenVulkano
 #endif
 	}
 
+	std::string Utils::GetThreadName()
+	{
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+		auto thisThread = ::GetCurrentThread();
+		PWSTR threadName;
+		GetThreadDescription(thisThread, &threadName);
+		std::wstring_convert<std::codecvt_utf8<wchar_t>> converter;
+		std::string str = converter.to_bytes(threadName);
+		LocalFree(threadName);
+		return str;
+#else
+		// NOTE(vb): Accoring to linux man page size of this array must be _at least_ 16 bytes...
+		// But I don't know whether is it applicable to have the buffer of bigger size
+		char threadName[16];
+		pthread_getname_np(pthread_self(), threadName, sizeof(threadName));
+		std::string str = threadName;
+		return str;
+#endif
+	}
+
 	Array<char> Utils::ReadFile(const std::string& filePath, bool emptyOnMissing)
 	{
 		std::ifstream file(filePath, std::ios::ate | std::ios::binary);