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Objects Modified is one of the source-code metrics Understand computes across 17+ languages — browse them in the GUI, export and track them, or script them with the Python API.

Objects Modified

API ID: CountObjectsModified
Languages: Any
Targets: Functions

The number of modifications to objects by this function

Example:

    int my_global = 10;
    void modifies(int x)
    {
      int y, z;
      x += 1;           // + 1 Parameters count
      x ++;             // + 1 Duplicates count
      y += 1;           // + 1 Locals count
      y ++;             // + 1 Duplicates count
      my_global += 1;   // + 1 Globals count
      my_global ++;     // + 1 Duplicates count
    }                   // CountObjectsModified = 6
    

Compare to CountObjectsModifiedUnique which counts unique objects this function modifies.