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e5ff4e416ecc8a51367022eb8a7a291f8cbc0c65 qa: use a clearer and documented amount error in malleated snapshot (Antoine Poinsot)
b34fdb5ade0b48384636f8c7c9673554bf82cedf test: introduce output amount (de)compression routines (Sebastian Falbesoner)
a7911ed101ff5b6b624a207f1526b1c347bf635f test: introduce VARINT (de)serialization routines (Sebastian Falbesoner)
Pull request description:
The `feature_assumeutxo.py` functional test checks various errors with malleated snapshots. Some of these cases are brittle or use confusing and undocumented values. Fix one of those by using a clear, documented and forward-compatible value.
I ran across those when working on an unrelated changeset which affected the snapshot. It took me a while to understand where the seemingly magic byte string was coming from, so i figured it was worth proposing this patch on its own for the sake of making the test more maintainable.
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