Synopsis

(Required) The global namespace shall only contain main, namespace declarations and extern C declarations.

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Medium/Medium

Full description

Found a global declaration not being main, namespace or extern C. This check is identical to MISRAC++2023-6.0.3.

Coding standards

Code examples

The following code example fails the check and will give a warning:

void example(){}

The following code example passes the check and will not give a warning about this issue:

namespace {
  void example(){}
}