C++11: Number of Variadic Template Function Parameters?

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Just write this:

const std::size_t n = sizeof...(T); //you may use `constexpr` instead of `const`

Note that n is a constant expression (i.e known at compile-time), which means you may use it where constant expression is needed, such as:

std::array<int,   n>  a; //array of  n elements
std::array<int, 2*n>  b; //array of (2*n) elements

auto middle = std::get<n/2>(tupleInstance);

Note that if you want to compute aggregated size of the packed types (as opposed to number of types in the pack), then you’ve to do something like this:

template<std::size_t ...>
struct add_all : std::integral_constant< std::size_t,0 > {};
 
template<std::size_t X, std::size_t ... Xs>
struct add_all<X,Xs...> : 
  std::integral_constant< std::size_t, X + add_all<Xs...>::value > {};

then do this:

constexpr auto size = add_all< sizeof(T)... >::value;

In C++17 (and later), computing the sum of size of the types is much simpler using fold expression:

constexpr auto size = (sizeof(T) + ...);

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