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From the article referenced in that earliser discussion: https://www.safetyresearch.net/toyota-unintended-acceleration-and-the-big-bowl-of-spaghetti-code/ https://www.safetyresearch.net/toyota-unintended-acceleratio... > Other egregious deviations from standard practice were the number of global variables in the system. (A variable is a location in memory that has a number in it. A global variable is any piece of software anywhere in the system can get to that number and read it or write it.) However, that was from the article author explaining the testimony, and not the testimony itself. It's not totally clear whether the variables were writable. I would have guessed they were statically allocated rather than heap allocated, but what really matters is whether they were `const` — and they probably weren't `const` because otherwise this testimony wouldn't have rung true: > "And in practice, five, ten, okay, fine. 10,000, no, we’re done. It is not safe, and I don’t need to see all 10,000 global variables to know that that is a problem," Koopman testified.