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Title:	DCL56-CPP. Avoid cycles during initialization of static objects
Author:	James Irving	Nov 04, 2009
Last Changed by:	David Svoboda	Jun 25, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/5Hw-BQ
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Parent Page     Page: Rule 01. Declarations and Initialization (DCL)

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Time	Editor
Jun 25, 2025 10:51	David Svoboda	View Changes
REM Cost Reform
Sep 26, 2022 15:51	Anirban Gangopadhyay	View Changes
Dec 29, 2021 14:32	Jon O'Donnell	View Changes
Apr 26, 2021 04:47	Jill Britton	View Changes
Apr 21, 2021 04:06	Jill Britton

External Links (7)
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcdcl56cpp.…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/java/S…
    https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/ctors#static-init-order

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