Synopsis

(Advisory) The only declarations in the global namespace should be main, namespace declarations and extern C declarations

Enabled by default

No

Severity/Certainty

Medium/Medium

Full description

Found a global declaration not being main, namespace or extern C. This check is identical to MISRAC++2008-7-3-1.

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(){}
}