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I've defined a few macros that make it simpler to define an array of structures, but I can't find a way to use them without generating errors. Here are the macros (and a few example structures to demonstrate why the macros might be used (the actual structures I'm populating are a little more complex)): struct string_holder { const char *string; }; struct string_array_holder { struct string_holder *holders; }; #define DEFINE_STRING_ARRAY_HOLDER(name, values) \ static struct string_holder name##__array[] = values; \ static struct string_array_holder name = { name##__array } #define WRAP_STRING(string) { string } It works just fine when you use it to declare an array with one item: DEFINE_STRING_ARRAY_HOLDER(my_string_array_holder, { WRAP_STRING("my string") }); But when I use multiple items: DEFINE_STRING_ARRAY_HOLDER(my_string_array_holder, { WRAP_STRING("hello"), WRAP_STRING("world") }); I get this error: error: too many arguments provided to function-like macro invocation So it's interpreting the comma in the braces as an argument separator. I follow the advice from this question and put parentheses around the problematic argument: DEFINE_STRING_ARRAY_HOLDER(my_string_array_holder, ({ WRAP_STRING("hello"), WRAP_STRING("world") })); Now when I try to compile it, it interprets ({ ... }) as a statement expression and complains: warning: use of GNU statement expression extension (a bunch of sy

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