On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:20 AM, sundararaj reel <sundararaj.reel@googlemail.com> wrote: > PS: The __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ macro in MyPrintf(const char*, va_list&) > reports the function as MyPrintf(const char*, char* &). Does it > indicate some "confusion" inside gcc (g++) ? No. It just means that on your system va_list and char* are equivalent.