pretty much; it increases the the nitems_written counter, too.

On 06/24/2015 09:38 PM, Richard Bell wrote:
> Ah OK. So the produce function advances the buffer pointer only?
>
> Rich
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Marcus Müller
> <marcus.muel...@ettus.com <mailto:marcus.muel...@ettus.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Rich,
>>     What happens when you assign input to output in a general_work
>>     call, out[ii]=in[ii], but don't call produce?
>     Then you're breaking a contract!
>     GNU Radio has to rely on you only writing samples you admit that
>     you produce -- otherwise, the write pointer can't advance, and the
>     next general_work will be offered the same buffer space again.
>>     My minds eye sees the out variable as a secondary local buffer
>>     for general_work.
>     There is no local buffer! You directly work on the pseudocircular
>     buffers; everything else would introduce unnecessary copy overhead.
>
>     Best regards,
>     Marcus
>
>
>     On 06/24/2015 09:23 PM, Richard Bell wrote:
>>     What happens when you assign input to output in a general_work
>>     call, out[ii]=in[ii], but don't call produce? Is the stuff you
>>     dumped into 'out' lost when general_work returns WORK_CALLED_PRODUCE?
>>
>>     My minds eye sees the out variable as a secondary local buffer
>>     for general_work. You dump stuff in there while general_work has
>>     scope, and transfer the contents of this buffer to the gnuradio
>>     block buffer when you call produce. Am I understanding this
>>     correctly?
>>
>>     v/r,
>>     Rich
>>
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