Variadic macro trick

by 
#define VA_NARGS_IMPL(_1, _2, _3, _4, _5, N, ...) N
#define VA_NARGS(...) VA_NARGS_IMPL(__VA_ARGS__, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1)

#define FOO_IMPL2(count, ...) FOO ## count (__VA_ARGS__)
#define FOO_IMPL(count, ...) FOO_IMPL2(count, __VA_ARGS__) 
#define FOO(...) FOO_IMPL(VA_NARGS(__VA_ARGS__), __VA_ARGS__)

FOO(a)
FOO(a, b)
FOO(a, b, c)

The invocations are replaced by:

FOO1 (a)
FOO2 (a, b)
FOO3 (a, b, c)

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