Delete a reference to PMT - GRextras

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Hi Community,

I’m working with blob manager to implement our design. The block diagram
in
GRExtras looks similar to this:

BLOCK 1 → BLOCK 2 → BLOCK 3 → SINK

Where, Block 1 contains the manager as follows:

MsgBlobManager = pmt::pmt_mgr::make();
for (size_t i = 0; i < MSG_BLOBS_ALLOCATION; i++)
{

MsgBlobManager->set(pmt::pmt_make_blob(BLOB_MSG_INITIAL_SIZE));
}

However, when I made some changes in the blob that is passing around in
BLOCK 2 (only 1 field of the blob), in BLOCK 3 I received the old data
from
BLOCK 1. This happens exactly 3 times until BLOCK 3 received the correct
updated data.

I’m not sure if it is related due to previous blocks are keeping a
reference to the incoming message (as explained in
Home · guruofquality/grextras Wiki · GitHub).
What I do not know either is the following:

“Normally, a PMT is created and passed to a downstream consumer. When
all
downstream consumers delete their references to the PMT, the object is
deconstructed and freed back into nothingness”

  1. How the downstream consumer delete their reference to a PMT object?
  2. Is it automatically done or should I explicitly do this?

Thanks for your time and advice,

Regards,

Jose.

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On 01/04/2013 07:20 PM, Jose T. Diaz wrote:

  for (size_t i = 0; i < MSG_BLOBS_ALLOCATION; i++)
  1. Is it automatically done or should I explicitly do this?

Its automatic, via deleting all references.

See boost intrusive_ptr
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/libs/smart_ptr/intrusive_ptr.html

In the case of the manager, the manager object hold 1 reference. When
you ask the manager for an available pmt, it looks for all objects that
have a reference count of 1. ie the manager is the only reference
holder.

I hope that helps some understanding.

If you are trying to trace the flow of the messages, you can also print
the pointer underlying object.
std::cout << "ptr to underlying object " << size_t(some_pmt.get())

-josh