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+/*=========================================================================
+
+Program:   Medical Imaging & Interaction Toolkit
+Language:  C++
+Date:      $Date$
+Version:   $Revision$
+
+Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center, Division of Medical and
+Biological Informatics. All rights reserved.
+See MITKCopyright.txt or http://www.mitk.org/copyright.html for details.
+
+This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
+the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.
+
+=========================================================================*/
+
+
+#ifndef MITKPPARGCOUNT_H
+#define MITKPPARGCOUNT_H
+
+#define MITK_PP_ARG_COUNT(...) \
+  MITK_PP_ARG_COUNT_(__VA_ARGS__, MITK_PP_RSEQ_N())
+
+#define MITK_PP_ARG_COUNT_(...) \
+  MITK_PP_ARG_N(__VA_ARGS__)
+
+#define MITK_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,N,...) N
+
+#define MITK_PP_RSEQ_N() \
+  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
+
+#endif // MITKPPARGCOUNT_H