and mark the inherited CBlockIndex#GetBlockHash public interface member
as deleted, to disallow calling it in the derived CDiskBlockIndex class.
Here is a failing test on master demonstrating the inconsistent behavior of the
current design: calling the same inherited public interface functions on the
same CDiskBlockIndex object should yield identical behavior.
```diff
diff --git a/src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp b/src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp
index 6dc522b421..dac3840f32 100644
--- a/src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp
+++ b/src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp
@@ -240,6 +240,15 @@ BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE(chainstatemanager_activate_snapshot, TestChain100Setup)
const CBlockIndex* tip = chainman.ActiveTip();
BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(tip->nChainTx, au_data.nChainTx);
+ // CDiskBlockIndex "is a" CBlockIndex, as it publicly inherits from it.
+ // Test that calling the same inherited interface functions on the same
+ // object yields identical behavior.
+ CDiskBlockIndex index{tip};
+ CBlockIndex *pB = &index;
+ CDiskBlockIndex *pD = &index;
+ BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(pB->GetBlockHash(), pD->GetBlockHash());
+ BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(pB->ToString(), pD->ToString());
+
```
The GetBlockHash() test assertion only passes on master because the different
methods invoked by the current design happen to return the same result. If one
of the two is changed, it fails like the ToString() assertion does.
Redefining inherited non-virtual functions is well-documented as incorrect
design to avoid inconsistent behavior (see Scott Meyers, "Effective C++", Item
36). Class usage is confusing when the behavior depends on the pointer
definition instead of the object definition (static binding happening where
dynamic binding was expected). This can lead to unsuspected or hard-to-track
bugs.
Outside of critical hot spots, correctness usually comes before optimisation,
but the current design dates back to main.cpp and it may possibly have been
chosen to avoid the overhead of dynamic dispatch. This solution does the same:
the class sizes are unchanged and no vptr or vtbl is added.
There are better designs for doing this that use composition instead of
inheritance or that separate the public interface from the private
implementations. One example of the latter would be a non-virtual public
interface that calls private virtual implementation methods, i.e. the Template
pattern via the Non-Virtual Interface (NVI) idiom.
These methods haven't been used since the chainstate db cache has been
switched from per-tx to per-txout model years ago (PR #10195, commit
d342424301).
fa9112aac0 Remove utxo db upgrade code (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
It is not possible to upgrade Bitcoin Core pre-segwit (pre-0.13.1) to a recent version without a full IBD from scratch after commit 19a56d1519 (released in version 22.0).
Any Bitcoin Core version with the new database format after commit 1088b02f0c (released in version 0.15), can upgrade to any version that is supported as of today.
This leaves the versions 0.13.1-0.14.x. Even though those versions are unsupported, some users with an existing datadir may want to upgrade to a recent version. However, it seems reasonable to simply ask them to `-reindex` to run a full IBD from scratch. This allows us to remove the utxo db upgrade code.
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Improve readability of code, simplify future scripted diff cleanup PRs, and be
more consistent with naming for GetBoolArg.
This will also be useful for replacing runtime settings type checking
with compile time checking.
-BEGIN VERIFY SCRIPT-
git grep -l GetArg | xargs sed -i 's/GetArg(\([^)]*\( [0-9]\+\|-1\|port\|BaseParams().RPCPort()\|Params().GetDefaultPort()\|_TIMEOUT\|Height\|_WORKQUEUE\|_THREADS\|_CONNECTIONS\|LIMIT\|SigOp\|Bytes\|_VERSION\|_AGE\|_CHECKS\|Checks() ? 1 : 0\|_BANTIME\|Cache\|BLOCKS\|LEVEL\|Weight\|Version\|BUFFER\|TARGET\|WEIGHT\|TXN\|TRANSACTIONS\|ADJUSTMENT\|i64\|Size\|nDefault\|_EXPIRY\|HEIGHT\|SIZE\|SNDHWM\|_TIME_MS\)\))/GetIntArg(\1)/g'
-END VERIFY SCRIPT-
Co-authored-by: Hennadii Stepanov <32963518+hebasto@users.noreply.github.com>
- Finish removing all references to 'recheckpeginblockinterval', including
documentation and tests.
- Remove periodic calls to MainchainRPCCheck; use it only at startup (and
refactor accordingly to simplify logic.)
- Move MainchainRPCCheck from validation.h/cpp (public) to an internal
helper function of init.cpp.
- Comment out definition of 'revalidation queue' type in txdb, to suppress
"unused variable" warning. (Leave it visible to avoid future reuse.)
Currently, if -validatepegin is given, and block validation can't proceed
because the parent chain is not synced, we mark the block invalid and put
it in a queue to be "revalidated" later. Unfortunately, marking a block
invalid has downstream consequences, in particular causing descendant blocks
to be marked invalid, which are not currently fixed by the queue.
Instead, we'll use a different strategy: if the mainchain daemon isn't
sufficiently synced to validate a block, we will "stall" connecting that
block to the chain, and have ActivateBestChain simply keep the tip at the
previous block until we're ready.
We can still download and validate (partly) blocks past this point while
we're waiting. They will be connected once the parent chain daemon catches
up.
Looks like James hardcoded a couple hashes in hard-to-find places, which
caused a unit test to fail. I just changed the hash (which covers UTXO
data which naturally will be different for us on account of our differently
formatted CTxOuts).
TODO: determine how Assumeutxo interacts with the fact that we don't save
out nonces in our normal UTXO serialization. Probably we will need to remove
the nonce from the CCoinStats serialization to avoid having inconsistent
hashes across nodes, since these hashes are now checked in assumeutxo?
