Hi Anitha, > Why is this not compiling ? Because the code is ambiguous as to which func1 should be used. > Can somebody explain what is going on here ? The code is ambiguous, and the compiler cannot guess as to which func1 is desired. > Why is it not directly going to overloaded func1 () - declared second. ? Because the signatures of the parameters do not match the second func1 any better than the first func1. There are three ways you can fix your source code: 1. change the 'string' parameters to 'const char*' parameters. 2. change the calling parameters from const char[] literals (the "hello" and "world"), to string objects instead. t->func1(string("hello"), string("world"), false); 3. Use different method names instead of overloading func1 with two different sets of parameters. Also a point of style: don't do "using namespace" in the global scope of header files. (I'd even go a step further and strongly recommend never doing "using namespace" anywhere in header files; but I'm draconian that way.) HTH, --Eljay