Ok thank you Marcus and Marcus for your answers.
GNURadio is really awesome and this feature will be great in my opinion.

Marcus (the first) said:
"However, you can loop *internally* within a block."
How can i do that?

Thx
Thomas


Le 17 mai 2017 10:56, "Marcus Müller" <marcus.muel...@ettus.com> a écrit :

> Adding to that, because it comes up every couple of years:
>
> Marcus is right, GNU Radio's scheduler will just bark at you and refuse to
> work if the flow graph has cycles.
>
> I don't fully agree with the statement that it's due to buffer management:
>
> I've patched away that refusal to work on a longish train ride some time
> ago, and in theory, with the Thread-Per-Block (TPB) scheduler, it *would*
> work. However, of course, you're running into causality problems if none of
> the blocks in the feedback path creates items out of thin air, and the
> block where feedback and forward items "merge" needs an item on every input.
>
> So, realizing that this refusal to work is a result of GNU Radio
> originally being written only with the single-threaded scheduler (STS) in
> mind, and is a remnant of us never really having codified or formalized the
> boundaries between blocks, block execution, scheduling, and flowgraph
> initialization, I kinda stopped there, and never wrote the unit and
> integration tests, wrote docs or figured out a way to test whether such a
> flow graph could work before actually letting it start to run.
>
> It just seemed wiser to *first* tackle the fact that we don't really have
> a formal description of how the scheduler should behave before changing
> what it refuses to do (and, possibly, for good reasons that I didn't have
> in mind). Now, fast forward a while, what a surprise!, that plan of
> formalizing what GR is supposed to do never saw execution; it's not really
> a weekend project.
>
> But: this whole thing has gotten traction over the last couple of weeks,
> so maybe we'll come up with something.
>
> Cheers,
> Marcus (the second)
>
> On 16.05.2017 22:39, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>
> On 05/16/2017 04:01 PM, Thom L wrote:
>
> Hi,
> For educational purposes I try to use gnuradio to realize simple digital
> filters with delay, add and multiply blocks.
> This is perfect for non-recursive filters but it does not seem possible to
> make loops as in the example above and thus impossible to build a recursive
> filter on the same principle?
> Thanks
> Thomas
>
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> However, you can loop *internally* within a block.
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