Overloading Macro on Number of Arguments

Question

I have two macros FOO2 and FOO3:

#define FOO2(x,y) ...
#define FOO3(x,y,z) ...

I want to define a new macro

Answer 1

Here is a more compact version of the answer above. With example.

#include 
using namespace std;

#define OVERLOADED_MACRO(M, ...) _OVR(M, _COUNT_ARGS(__VA_ARGS__)) (__VA_ARGS__)
#define _OVR(macroName, number_of_args)   _OVR_EXPAND(macroName, number_of_args)
#define _OVR_EXPAND(macroName, number_of_args)    macroName##number_of_args

#define _COUNT_ARGS(...)  _ARG_PATTERN_MATCH(__VA_ARGS__, 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1)
#define _ARG_PATTERN_MATCH(_1,_2,_3,_4,_5,_6,_7,_8,_9, N, ...)   N


//Example:
#define ff(...)     OVERLOADED_MACRO(ff, __VA_ARGS__)
#define ii(...)     OVERLOADED_MACRO(ii, __VA_ARGS__)

#define ff3(c, a, b) for (int c = int(a); c < int(b); ++c)
#define ff2(c, b)   ff3(c, 0, b)

#define ii2(a, b)   ff3(i, a, b)
#define ii1(n)      ii2(0, n)


int main() {
    ff (counter, 3, 5)
        cout << "counter = " << counter << endl;
    ff (abc, 4)
        cout << "abc = " << abc << endl;
    ii (3)
        cout << "i = " << i << endl;
    ii (100, 103)
        cout << "i = " << i << endl;


    return 0;
}

Run:

User@Table 13:06:16 /c/T
$ g++ test_overloaded_macros.cpp 

User@Table 13:16:26 /c/T
$ ./a.exe
counter = 3
counter = 4
abc = 0
abc = 1
abc = 2
abc = 3
i = 0
i = 1
i = 2
i = 100
i = 101
i = 102

Note that having both _OVR and _OVR_EXPAND may look redundant, but it's necessary for the preprocessor to expand the _COUNT_ARGS(__VA_ARGS__) part, which otherwise is treated as a string.