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fac30eec42c486ec1bfd696293040a7aa0f04625 refactor: Replace &foo[0] with foo.data() (MarcoFalke) faece47c4706783e0460ed977390a44630b2d44c refactor: Avoid &foo[0] on C-Style arrays (MarcoFalke) face9611093377e8502d91f2ff56f9319a56357c refactor: Use only one temporary buffer in CreateObfuscateKey (MarcoFalke) fa05dddc42770809fdae4d9c35155f8117960019 refactor: Use CPubKey vector constructor where possible (MarcoFalke) fabb6dfe6e734eadd91448122f2ce8c1612c39a6 script: Replace address-of idiom with vector data() method (Guido Vranken) Pull request description: The main theme of this refactor is to replace `&foo[0]` with `foo.data()`. The first commit is taken from #21781 with the rationale: * In CSignatureCache::ComputeEntryECDSA, change the way a vector pointer is resolved to prevent invoking undefined behavior if the vector is empty. The other commits aim to remove all `&foo[0]`, where `foo` is any kind of byte representation. The rationale: * Sometimes alternative code without any raw data pointers is easier to read (refer to the respective commit message for details) * If the raw data pointer is needed, `foo.data()` should be preferred, as pointed out in the developer notes. This addresses the instances that have been missed in commit 592404f03f2b734351d734f0c9ca1fdce997321b, and https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9804 ACKs for top commit: laanwj: Code review ACK fac30eec42c486ec1bfd696293040a7aa0f04625 practicalswift: cr ACK fac30eec42c486ec1bfd696293040a7aa0f04625: patch looks correct promag: Code review ACK fac30eec42c486ec1bfd696293040a7aa0f04625. Tree-SHA512: e7e73146edbc78911a8e8c728b0a1c6b0ed9a88a008e650aa5dbffe72425bd42c76df70199a9cf7e02637448d7593e0eac52fd0f91f59240283e1390ee21bfa5
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information read the original Bitcoin whitepaper.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development Process
The master branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.