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by mgaunard 847 days ago
for demonstration purposes only.

  #include <array>
  #include <tuple>

  constexpr std::array<char, 11> itos(unsigned n) {
      std::array<char, 11> s;
      unsigned i = 0;
      while (n) {
          s[i++] = '0' + (n % 10);
          n /= 10;
      }
      s[i] = '\0';
      return s;
  }
  template<auto V>
  struct static_value {
      static constexpr auto value = V;
  };

  template<class T, unsigned N>
  struct tuple_accessor;
  
  template<class...T, unsigned N>
  struct tuple_accessor<std::tuple<T...>, N> {
      static constexpr const char *name = static_value<itos(N)>::value.data();
  };
1 comments

Your constexpr function is not legal because it doesn't initialize all the array elements, even though the compiler might let you get away with it. That's easily fixed. More importantly, though, your static_value::value is not a const char *.
That restriction was lifted in 2020.

tuple_accessor::name is a const char* which is what you asked for. static_value here is an implementation detail and the type of its members is irrelevant.