So, the first line of work and general_work functions is usually something
of the form

const unsigned char *in = (const unsigned char *) input_items[0];
unsigned char *out = (unsigned char *) output_items[0];

or

gr_complex *in = (gr_complex *) input_items[0];
gr_complex *out = (gr_complex *) output_items[0];

or other input/output types.

The confusion comes when I make blocks that have user selectable types
through GRC. I see from built-ins that developers use the unsigned char
pointers for this usually. What I can't figure out is how this works when a
user selects gr_complex as an input/output type. It seems to me that these
pointers to unsigned chars should fail dramatically. But they don't! In
fact, I can use either of the two forms I presented above and my flow graph
"works", quotes because there maybe a fail case I haven't found yet, so far
they just work either way.

Rich
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