How do I use while true in threads?

Question

Can anyone point me at the thing I try to do in this code, because SecondLoop thread is unreachable at all? It becomes reachable only if I remove while(true) loop.

#include <iostream>
#include <thread>

using namespace std;

void Loop() {
    while(true) {
        (do something)
    }
}

void SecondLoop() {
    while(true) {
        (do something)
    }
}

int main() {
    thread t1(Loop);
    t1.join();

    thread t2(SecondLoop);
    t2.join(); // THIS THREAD IS UNREACHABLE AT ALL!

    return false;
}

The reason why I use multithreading is because I need to get two loops running at the same time.

Solution 1

join blocks the current thread to wait for another thread to finish. Since your t1 never finishes, your main thread waits for it indefinitely.

Edit:

To run two threads indefinitely and concurrency, first create the threads, and then wait for both:

int main() {
    thread t1(Loop);
    thread t2(SecondLoop);

    t1.join();
    t2.join();
}

Solution 2

To run Loop and SecondLoop concurrency, you have to do something like:

#include <iostream>
#include <thread>

void Loop() {
    while(true) {
        //(do something)
    }
}

void SecondLoop() {
    while(true) {
        //(do something)
    }
}

int main() {
    std::thread t1(Loop);
    std::thread t2(SecondLoop);
    t1.join();
    t2.join();
}

as join block current thread to wait the other thread finishes.