Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Some new 802.15.4 stuff

[Tom Rondeau]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Bastian Bloessl
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> thanks for your response!
>
>
> On 04/15/2013 03:55 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote:
>>
>> So can you point out where that gettimeofday call is being made? We
>> should be dealing with that situation in cmake, so if something's
>> going wrong, let us know.
>
> It's not a problem of GNU Radio. I use gettimeofday to time stamp the
> received packets for the pcap trace file. I guess I should search for a
> better function. I will have a look at the UHD blocks.

Ok, good to know. Yeah, there are ways to handle that cross-platform.

>> And the '(old)' block were recently discussed in a mailing list post
>> from a couple of weeks ago. This is just us telling you that these are
>> the old-style blocks in 3.6. They will still work for the time being,
>> but if you upgrade to 3.7, they will have disappeared. The (old)
>> indication is so that you can switch them out with the new blocks that
>> are functionally equivalent but now in the 3.7 style so they can be
>> future compatible when updating to 3.7.
>
> I was just not sure what happens when I upload a flow graph where (at least
> locally) some blocks are marked '(old)' and someone with 3.6.4 tries to run
> them. But it looks like it should work, as at least in the .grc files there
> is no 'old'.
>
> Best,
> Bastian

Yeah, you'll be fine. The .grc files only keep track of the key tag of
the XML code that defines the block in GRC; that's translated in GRC
to the block's name tag, which is where the (old) string is added.

Tom