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Comments on Macro to count the number of arguments

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Macro to count the number of arguments

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Let's say we have a function

void f(int argc, ...);

where argc is the number of variadic arguments.

Can we write a macro of the form

#define F(...)   f(CNT(__VA_ARGS__), __VA_ARGS__)

which passes the right value in argc?

How can that CNT() be implemented?

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If you are on C++11 (or newer), it should be possible to use variadic templates to write a simple (compile-time) function to count the number of arguments:

template<typename... Ts>
constexpr int countArgs(const Ts&... args) {
    return sizeof...(args);
}

With this function, we can go ahead and write the desired macro as follows:

#define F(...) f(countArgs(__VA_ARGS__), __VA_ARGS__)

This should work no matter what the types of the variadic arguments are.

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This is off-topic (2 comments)
This is off-topic
Lundin‭ wrote over 1 year ago

The question is about C so your answer is off-topic. C doesn't have templates and it also treats constexpr differently than C++.

mr Tsjolder‭ wrote over 1 year ago

You're right. I forgot to check the tags. I'll leave it here in case anyone with interest in c++ stumbles across this question.