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V1043. A global object variable is decl…
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V1043. A global object variable is declared in the header. Multiple copies of it will be created in all translation units that include this header file.

Aug 21 2019

The analyzer has detected a declaration of a constant object in a header file. Including this file using the 'include' directive will result in creating multiple copies of that object. If the class has a constructor, it will be called each time the header is included, which may have undesirable side effects.

For example:

//some_header.h

class MyClass
{
  int field1;
  int field2;
  MyClass (int a, int b)
  {
    // ....
  }
};

// ....

const MyClass object{1, 2}; // <=

The diagnostic ignores classes and structures with no constructors defined. The following code snippet will not trigger the warning:

//some_header.h

struct MyStruct
{
  int field1;
  int field2;
};

// ....

const MyStruct object{1, 2};

You can also avoid this error by declaring the variable as 'inline' (starting with C++17) or 'extern'. With this fix, the variable initialization and constructor call will be performed only once.

Fixed version:

//some_header.h

class MyClass
{
  // ....
};

// ....

inline const MyClass object{1, 2};

Note: using the 'constexpr' keyword instead of 'const' in the variable declaration doesn't change this behavior. According to the C++17 standard, only constexpr functions and static constexpr class/structure fields are implicitly declared as inline.

This issue is discussed in detail in the article "What Every C++ Developer Should Know to (Correctly) Define Global Constants".

You can look at examples of errors detected by the V1043 diagnostic.