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Yeah, I just realized that you can't really recurse with macros without doing nasty repetition, so it is not possible to do GREATEST_MAIN(suite1, suite2, suite3, etc), not even using C99 variadic macros.

Had it been possible, it would definitely make sense to add this oneliner utility. Since it would end up being very limited, it probably doesn't.

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I think it could work like this:

    SUITE_LIST(suites) {
        suite1,
        suite2,
        // ...
    };

    GREATEST_MAIN(suites);

but, again, I don't know if that's necessarily an improvement. RUN_SUITE is encapsulating saving the suite's name, optionally only running suites with names that match a certain pattern, and some other features that become tricky to implement with just a statically allocated function pointer array. I'm also trying to avoid doing anything "clever" with macros.

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