Boost (BGL): How do dis-obfuscate my errors?

Question

I seem to recall reading about a way to 'reduce' the size of template spew in compiler errors associated with the boost libraries. My recollection is that it gives the template parameters nicer names than the compiler default naming (which is quite horrid).

Is this real, or did I dream about it? I've been trying to find where I read this but I can't seem to locate anything - is there a way?

Answer 1

I have heard this works well.
http://www.bdsoft.com/tools/stlfilt.html

It is a perl script that parses the error messages a generates more readable versions

Answer 2

Ladies and Gentlemen this GCC extension is exactly what I was thinking of ...