获取c++ auto/decltype生成的类型

Here's a trick, so you can make the compiler to print a type:

template <typename>
struct TD;

Then use:

TD<decltype(myWidget1)>();

As TD<...> is an incomplete type, the compiler will complain, and will print your type in the error message:

error: invalid use of incomplete type struct TD<Widget>

So myWidget1's type is Widget.

Type of myWidget2:

error: invalid use of incomplete type struct TD<const Widget&>

So its type is indeed const Widget &, as you suspected.

So yes, what you've described is right.