Software ResiliencyCode Reliability
CAST Recommendations
Why you should care
Global variables should be encapsulated in a class and doing so can make code more productive.
CAST Recommendations
How we detect
This code insight counts a violation each time there are too many global variables
int m_iGlobal = 0;
void m()
{
m_iGlobal = 1; // VIOLATION
}
Remedy
Create a static data member in the appropriate class to replace the global variable.
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