• February's Overload Journal has been published.
  12 February 2025

  The February 2025 ACCU Overload journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. Overload 185 and previous issues of Overload can be accessed via the Journals menu.

• January's C Vu Journal has been published.
  10 January 2025

  The January 2025 ACCU C Vu journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. C Vu 36-6 and previous issues of C Vu can be accessed via the Journals menu (ACCU members only).

  I'd like to extend my thanks to Mike Crowe for creating more detailed indexes of the PDF images for two years of CVu magazines, volumes 19 and 20, issues 19.1 through 20.6. The enhanced information is now available for members' use.

• Upcoming ACCU Cambridge Meeting, 15 January 2025.
  10 January 2025

  After a great social meet-up in December we truly reboot ACCU Cambridge next week with our first talk:

  https://www.meetup.com/accu-cambridge/events/304633337

  It would be great to see as many as possible show up. It will be next Wednesday 15 January 2025, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM GMT at the Bradfield Center (on the Science Park).

• December's Overload Journal has been published.
  15 December 2024

  The December 2024 ACCU Overload journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. Overload 184 and previous issues of Overload can be accessed via the Journals menu.

• November's C Vu Journal has been published.
  11 November 2024

  The November 2024 ACCU C Vu journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. C Vu 36-5 and previous issues of C Vu can be accessed via the Journals menu (ACCU members only).

Overload 185 · February 2025 (PDF)

Contents

• All the Information is on the Task.
  Instructions can be useful or infuriating, Frances Buontempo wonders how to give and follow directions.

• Using Senders/Receivers.
  C++26 will introduce senders/receivers. Lucian Radu Teodorescu demonstrates how to use them to write multithreaded code.

• Bit Fields, Byte Order and Serialization.
  Network packets can be represented as bit fields. Wu Yongwei explores some issues to be aware of and offers solutions.

• Valgrind’s Dynamic Heap Analysis Tool: DHAT.
  Valgrind experimental tool DHAT is now official. Paul Floyd explains what this heap analysis tool is and how to use it.

• Afterwood.
  Learning can be a lonely experience. Chris Oldwood tells us why he prefers learning in person.