This commit effectively moves the definition of these constants
out of the chainparamsbase to their own file.
Using the ChainType enums provides better type safety compared to
passing around strings.
The commit is part of an ongoing effort to decouple the libbitcoinkernel
library from the ArgsManager and other functionality that should not be
part of the kernel library.
36c201feb7 remove CBlockIndex copy construction (James O'Beirne)
Pull request description:
Copy construction of CBlockIndex objects is a footgun because of the
wide use of equality-by-pointer comparison in the code base. There are
also potential lifetime confusions of using copied instances, since
there are recursive pointer members (e.g. pprev).
(See also https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/24008#discussion_r891949166)
We can't just delete the copy constructors because they are used for
derived classes (CDiskBlockIndex), so we mark them protected.
ACKs for top commit:
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Copy construction of CBlockIndex objects is a footgun because of the
wide use of equality-by-pointer comparison in the code base. There are
also potential lifetime confusions of using copied instances, since
there are recursive pointer references (e.g. pprev).
We can't just delete the copy constructors because they are used for
derived classes (CDiskBlockIndex), so we mark them protected.
Delete move constructors and declare the destructor to satisfy the
"rule of 5."
The rule against difficulty adjustments changing by more than a factor of 4 can
be helpful for anti-DoS measures in contexts where we lack a full headers
chain, so expose this functionality separately and in the narrow case where we
only know the height, new value, and old value.
Includes fuzz test by Martin Zumsande.
Blindly chose a cap of 10000 iterations for every loop, except for
the two in script_ops.cpp and scriptnum_ops.cpp which appeared to
(sometimes) be deserializing individual bytes; capped those to one
million to ensure that sometimes we try working with massive scripts.
There was also one fuzzer-controlled loop in timedata.cpp which was
already capped, so I left that alone.
git grep 'while (fuzz' should now run clean except for timedata.cpp
-BEGIN VERIFY SCRIPT-
# Rename
sed -i -e 's/MakeFuzzingContext/MakeNoLogFileContext/g' $(git grep -l MakeFuzzingContext)
# Bump the copyright of touched files in this scripted diff to avoid touching them again later
./contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py update ./src/test/fuzz/
-END VERIFY SCRIPT-
