Hi Tim, you're entering a minefield there... Since you've built your flowgraph using GRC, you have a python-constructed flowgraph. That's why things start to get confusing for the c++ developer. First of all, destructors of python objects are called whenever the python runtime feels like it - this often happens when you do something like object_name = None but it doesn't necessarily has to happen right away. The Garbage Collector can choose when to do it, and sometimes, it decides not to do it at all - if your program terminates first, this might be the case. Furthermore, if it decides that at the end of runtime, it should destruct its output stream file handles before destructing your block, your printf output might be lost. Then: You have a C++ object wrapped by SWIG. So, what you're seeing in Python is not actually an instance of your block, it is a SWIG object holding a reference to such an instance. Usually, when that Swig Object's python destructor is called, it should delete the block instance, too, but then again, if I knew what really happens inside SWIG, I'd feel a lot wiser. Lastly: Destructors doing actual work is a tricky thing. Mostly, because, what does the runtime (both, c++ or python) do when a destructor throws an exception? In that case, should the runtime ignore it and just think "meh, whatever, it's dead anyway" or should it cause the program to exit with a failure state? And: what if a C++ destructor fails that got called by the python garbage collector? That shouldn't crash the global python interpreter, should it?
So these are the pitfalls I could think of. Maybe the situation is a lot easier, though :) Post some code, maybe a github gist or a pastebin! Happy Hacking, Marcus On 10/12/2013 12:24 AM, Monahan-Mitchell, Tim wrote:
Rarely, I'm seeing evidence that my custom source block destructor is not being called. My flowgraph was built with "No GUI" and "Prompt for Exit" options (GR 3.7.1+) The condition is that my source block's work function has moved to a state returning WORK_DONE, and will stay in that state. When I press Enter to end the flowgraph, I sometimes don't see the usual ending printf() outputs. Fortunately, it does not happen often. This article cites such a case: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2013-02/msg00055.html, but my flowgraph only has my custom source block and a File Sink block. Regards, Tim _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
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