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6e873df3478f3ab8f67d1b9339c7e990ae90e95b serfloat: improve/simplify tests (Pieter Wuille) b45f1f56582fb3a0d17db5014ac57f1fb40a3611 serfloat: do not test encode(bits)=bits anymore (Pieter Wuille) Pull request description: Closes #28941. Our current tests for serfloat verify two distinct properties: 1. Whether they roundtrip `double`->`uint64_t`->`double` (excluding NaN values) on all systems. 2. Whether on systems with a typical floating point unit that encoding matches the hardware representation, as before v22.0, we would dump the hardware representation directly to disk and we wanted to retain compatibility with that. #28941 seems to show that the second property doesn't always hold, but just for "subnormal" numbers (below $2^{-1021}$). Since we don't care about encoding these numbers, we could exclude such subnormal numbers from the hardware-identical representation test, but this PR goes further and just drops the second property entirely, as I don't think we care about edge-case compatibility with pre-v22.0 code for fee_estimates.dat (the only place it is used). ACKs for top commit: glozow: ACK 6e873df3478f3ab8f67d1b9339c7e990ae90e95b fanquake: ACK 6e873df3478f3ab8f67d1b9339c7e990ae90e95b - It's not as much of a priority, but I think we could still backport this. Tree-SHA512: e18ceee0753a7ee7e999fdfa10b014dc5bb67b6ef79522a0f8c76b889adcfa785772fc26ed7559bcb5a09a9938e243bb54eedd9549bc59080a2c8090155e2267
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
What is Bitcoin Core?
Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
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.