this pointer and static member functions

Syntactically

this pointer is not available in the static function because compiler does not pass the this pointer into the static functions.

As an example when you call the member function mf() from the object obj of class C as follows

obj.mf();

Then compiler internally does the following

mf(C this);

But for static function this is not the case and so its not available in the function.
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Now semantically the concept is static functions can be called before the creation of object and also independent of the object and so this object is not created and so its not available.

I hope its clear now or else :shoot: more questions.