Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Can the io signatur of the gnuradio blocks be dynamically updated?

[Martin Braun (CEL)]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:16:44AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> So, my question is why this is any different than the existing cases of FFT 
> and
> FIR filter blocks -- they have an I/O signature of a complex-stream, and
> internally they "do the right thing" when the filter length changes.  I don't
> immediately see why blocks that conceptually "change size" can't just do it
> internally just like the FFT and FIR filter cases.

These blocks never change the io-signature--not in a GNU Radio sense,
nor in a DSP sense. They always take 1 sample and output 1 sample. They
*do* mess around with the history, I believe. This is something very
different than dynamically changing the input vector length.

MB

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