Macro to count number of arguments

Question

I have a variadic function from a third-party C library:

int func(int argc, ...);

argc indicates the number of passed optional

Answer 1

It is possible to do in GCC using the ##VA_ARGS extension:

#define PP_ARG_N( \
          _1,  _2,  _3,  _4,  _5,  _6,  _7,  _8,  _9, _10, \
         _11, _12, _13, _14, _15, _16, _17, _18, _19, _20, \
         _21, _22, _23, _24, _25, _26, _27, _28, _29, _30, \
         _31, _32, _33, _34, _35, _36, _37, _38, _39, _40, \
         _41, _42, _43, _44, _45, _46, _47, _48, _49, _50, \
         _51, _52, _53, _54, _55, _56, _57, _58, _59, _60, \
         _61, _62, _63, N, ...) N

/* Note 63 is removed */
#define PP_RSEQ_N()                                        \
         62, 61, 60,                                       \
         59, 58, 57, 56, 55, 54, 53, 52, 51, 50,           \
         49, 48, 47, 46, 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40,           \
         39, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30,           \
         29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20,           \
         19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10,           \
          9,  8,  7,  6,  5,  4,  3,  2,  1,  0

#define PP_NARG_(...)    PP_ARG_N(__VA_ARGS__)    

/* Note dummy first argument _ and ##__VA_ARGS__ instead of __VA_ARGS__ */
#define PP_NARG(...)     PP_NARG_(_, ##__VA_ARGS__, PP_RSEQ_N())

#define my_func(...)     func(PP_NARG(__VA_ARGS__), __VA_ARGS__)

Now PP_NARG(a, b, c) gives 3 and PP_NARG() gives 0.

Unfortunately I don't see a way to make it work in general.