http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60469
--- Comment #1 from Andi Kleen <andi-gcc at firstfloor dot org> --- I investigated this a bit. The problem is in get_chain_decl() in the nested function lowering because Cilk creates nested functions. info->outer is NULL created_nesting_tree does this for (cgn = cgn->nested; cgn ; cgn = cgn->next_nested) { struct nesting_info *sub = create_nesting_tree (cgn); sub->outer = info; sub->next = info->inner; info->inner = sub; } So it would only set ->outer for any inner functions and it is expected to be NULL on the outer most nesting level $6 = {outer = 0x0, inner = 0x329b590, next = 0x0, field_map = 0x329c780, var_map = 0x329dc70, mem_refs = 0x329e850, suppress_expansion = 0x32f8d20, context = <function_decl 0x7fe4297b7e00 main>, new_local_var_chain = <tree 0x0>, debug_var_chain = <tree 0x0>, frame_type = <tree 0x0>, frame_decl = <tree 0x0>, chain_field = <tree 0x0>, chain_decl = <tree 0x0>, nl_goto_field = <tree 0x0>, any_parm_remapped = false, any_tramp_created = false, static_chain_added = 0 '\000'} So this whole code is invoked on the most outer most context, which it cannot deal with This seems to be related to the decl_function_context farther up the callstack: static tree convert_nonlocal_reference_op (tree *tp, int *walk_subtrees, void *data) { struct walk_stmt_info *wi = (struct walk_stmt_info *) data; struct nesting_info *const info = (struct nesting_info *) wi->info; tree t = *tp; *walk_subtrees = 0; switch (TREE_CODE (t)) { case VAR_DECL: /* Non-automatic variables are never processed. */ if (TREE_STATIC (t) || DECL_EXTERNAL (t)) break; /* FALLTHRU */ case PARM_DECL: if (decl_function_context (t) != info->context) (gdb) p t->decl_minimal.context $11 = <tree 0x0> (gdb) p info->context $12 = <function_decl 0x7fe4297b7e00 main> This means the VAR_DECL doesn't have the correct context Looking at c-common/cilk.c it seems to copy VAR_DECLs. So it somehow doesn't set up the context correctly?