36c201feb7 remove CBlockIndex copy construction (James O'Beirne)
Pull request description:
Copy construction of CBlockIndex objects is a footgun because of the
wide use of equality-by-pointer comparison in the code base. There are
also potential lifetime confusions of using copied instances, since
there are recursive pointer members (e.g. pprev).
(See also https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/24008#discussion_r891949166)
We can't just delete the copy constructors because they are used for
derived classes (CDiskBlockIndex), so we mark them protected.
ACKs for top commit:
ajtowns:
ACK 36c201feb7 - code review only
MarcoFalke:
re-ACK 36c201feb7 🏻
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