`CON54-CPP`: Consider `wait`/`wait_until`/`wait_for`s `stop_waiting` parameter in lieu of loop

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#430 opened on Nov 10, 2023 1 comment 0 reactions 1 assignee View on GitHub

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Difficulty-Low false positive/false negative Impact-Low Stardard-CERT-C++ user-report

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CON54-CPP

Description

The std::condition_variable::wait, std::condition_variable::wait_until and std::condition_variable::wait_for functions include an overload with a stop_waiting predicate parameter. If this overload is used, spurious waking is avoided and therefore this issue should not be reported.

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