Since the kernel library no longer depends on the system file, move it
to the common library instead in accordance to the diagram in
doc/design/libraries.md.
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.
This is an extraction of ArgsManager related functions from util/system
into their own common file.
Config file related functions are moved to common/config.cpp.
The background of this commit is an ongoing effort to decouple the
libbitcoinkernel library from the ArgsManager. The ArgsManager belongs
into the common library, since the kernel library should not depend on
it. See doc/design/libraries.md for more information on this rationale.
The fs.* files are already part of the libbitcoin_util library. With the
introduction of the fs_helpers.* it makes sense to move fs.* into the
util/ directory as well.
This is a minimal extraction of a single function, but also the only use
of std::exception in util/system.
The background of this commit is an ongoing effort to decouple the
libbitcoinkernel library from the ArgsManager defined in system.h.
Moving the function out of system.h allows including it from a separate
source file without including the ArgsManager definitions from system.h.
2022917223 Add secp256k1_selftest call (Pieter Wuille)
3bfca788b0 Remove explicit enabling of default modules (Pieter Wuille)
4462cb0498 Adapt to libsecp256k1 API changes (Pieter Wuille)
9d47e7b71b Squashed 'src/secp256k1/' changes from 44c2452fd3..21ffe4b22a (Pieter Wuille)
Pull request description:
Now that libsecp256k1 has a release (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-December/021271.html), update the subtree to match it.
The changes themselves are not very impactful for Bitcoin Core, but include:
* It's no longer needed to specify whether contexts are for signing or verification or both (all contexts support everything), so make use of that in this PR.
* Verification operations can use the static context now, removing the need for some infrastructure in pubkey.cpp to make sure a context exists.
* Most modules are now enabled by default, so we can drop explicit enabling for them.
* CI improvements (in particular, MSVC and more recent MacOS)
* Introduction of an internal int128 type, which has no effect for GCC/Clang builds, but enables 128-bit multiplication in MSVC, giving a ~20% speedup there (but still slower than GCC/Clang).
* Release process changes (process documentation, changelog, ...).
ACKs for top commit:
Sjors:
ACK 2022917223, but 4462cb0498 could use more eyes on it.
achow101:
ACK 2022917223
jonasnick:
utACK 2022917223
Tree-SHA512: 8a9fe28852abe74abd6f96fef16a94d5a427b1d99bff4caab1699014d24698aab9b966a5364a46ed1001c07a7c1d825154ed4e6557c7decce952b77330a8616b
* Use SECP256K1_CONTEXT_NONE when creating signing context, as
SECP256K1_CONTEXT_SIGN is deprecated and unnecessary.
* Use secp256k1_static_context where applicable.
The only reason BOOST_CPPFLAGS is needed here, is because of the
policy/rbf.h include, which ultimately includes boost multi_index
via txmempool.h. However this include is actually unused.
Achieve this by adding a MAIN_FUNCTION macro, consolidating the docs, and
introducing the macro across our distributed binaries.
Also update the docs to explain that anyone using binutils < 2.36 is
effected by this issue. Release builds are not, because they use binutils
2.37. Currently LTS Linux distros, like Ubuntu Focal, ship with 2.34.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/binutils
