582d2cd747Cover UTXO set access with lock annotations (James O'Beirne)5693530685refactor: have CCoins* data managed under CChainState (James O'Beirne)fae6ab6aedrefactor: pcoinsTip -> CChainState::CoinsTip() (James O'Beirne) Pull request description: This is part of the [assumeutxo project](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects/11): Parent PR: #15606 Issue: #15605 Specification: https://github.com/jamesob/assumeutxo-docs/tree/2019-04-proposal/proposal --- This change encapsulates UTXO set data within CChainState instances, removing global data `pcoinsTip` and `pcoinsviewdb`. This is necessary if we want to maintain multiple chainstates with their own rendering of the UTXO set. We introduce a class CoinsViews which consolidates the construction of a CCoins* hierarchy. This commit could be broken into smaller pieces, but it would require more ephemeral diffs to, e.g., temporarily change CCoinsViewDB's constructor invocations. ACKs for top commit: Sjors: reACK582d2cd747MarcoFalke: ACK582d2cd747Tree-SHA512: ec9d904fe5dca8cd2dc4b7916daa5d8bab30856dd4645987300f905e0a19f9919fce4f9d1ff03eda982943ca73e6e9a746be6cf53b46510de36e8c81a1eafba1
Internal c++ interfaces
The following interfaces are defined here:
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Chain— used by wallet to access blockchain and mempool state. Added in #14437, #14711, #15288, and #10973. -
ChainClient— used by node to start & stopChainclients. Added in #14437. -
Node— used by GUI to start & stop bitcoin node. Added in #10244. -
Handler— returned byhandleEventmethods on interfaces above and used to manage lifetimes of event handlers. -
Init— used by multiprocess code to access interfaces above on startup. Added in #10102.
The interfaces above define boundaries between major components of bitcoin code (node, wallet, and gui), making it possible for them to run in different processes, and be tested, developed, and understood independently. These interfaces are not currently designed to be stable or to be used externally.