Passing variable arguments to another function that accepts a variable argument list

You can't do it directly; you have to create a function that takes a va_list:

#include <stdarg.h>

static void exampleV(int b, va_list args);

void exampleA(int a, int b, ...)    // Renamed for consistency
{
    va_list args;
    do_something(a);                // Use argument a somehow
    va_start(args, b);
    exampleV(b, args);
    va_end(args);
}

void exampleB(int b, ...)
{
    va_list args;
    va_start(args, b);
    exampleV(b, args);
    va_end(args);
}

static void exampleV(int b, va_list args)
{
    ...whatever you planned to have exampleB do...
    ...except it calls neither va_start nor va_end...
}

Maybe throwin a rock in a pond here, but it seems to work pretty OK with C++11 variadic templates:

#include <stdio.h>

template<typename... Args> void test(const char * f, Args... args) {
  printf(f, args...);
}

int main()
{
  int a = 2;
  test("%s\n", "test");
  test("%s %d %d %p\n", "second test", 2, a, &a);
}

At the very least, it works with g++.

you should create versions of these functions which take a va_list, and pass those. Look at vprintf as an example:

int vprintf ( const char * format, va_list arg );