On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Maxim Blinov <maxim.a.blinov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > However, what is a static chain pointer exactly? After some reading, I > understand it to be used for retrieving locals from the caller's > frame, but how would this functionality be relevant to C? GCC supports nested functions as a C extension. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-7.1.0/gcc/Nested-Functions.html#Nested-Functions . I don't know why you get the error in code that doesn't use static functions. It may be a minor bug--an unnecessary call to to the static_chain hook. Ian
