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06edc23f7 Improve readability by removing redundant casts to same type (on all platforms) (practicalswift) Pull request description: Same binaries check under Linux: ``` $ ../bitcoin-maintainer-tools/build-for-compare.py 874f13821f4193bd037cd37d005ee76b5a849398 82274c02ed2d82537dc55f008a29edb1bc09bbc4 --executables "src/bitcoind,src/bitcoin-cli,src/bitcoin-tx" $ sha256sum /tmp/compare/*.stripped 1fe1a8827474f7f24475ce3dc851e7ac658d4ed0ae38d11e67f5a810671eaa15 /tmp/compare/bitcoin-cli.82274c02ed2d82537dc55f008a29edb1bc09bbc4.stripped 1fe1a8827474f7f24475ce3dc851e7ac658d4ed0ae38d11e67f5a810671eaa15 /tmp/compare/bitcoin-cli.874f13821f4193bd037cd37d005ee76b5a849398.stripped 342c2ed0e60b60990a58cbf5845b256a4f9e3baff9db074baba5e34a620a60ea /tmp/compare/bitcoind.82274c02ed2d82537dc55f008a29edb1bc09bbc4.stripped 342c2ed0e60b60990a58cbf5845b256a4f9e3baff9db074baba5e34a620a60ea /tmp/compare/bitcoind.874f13821f4193bd037cd37d005ee76b5a849398.stripped e4b2a80b2361d5cefd67a47eeb9298b8b712c26c7779d979348be8b2c7e3ec93 /tmp/compare/bitcoin-tx.82274c02ed2d82537dc55f008a29edb1bc09bbc4.stripped e4b2a80b2361d5cefd67a47eeb9298b8b712c26c7779d979348be8b2c7e3ec93 /tmp/compare/bitcoin-tx.874f13821f4193bd037cd37d005ee76b5a849398.stripped $ git diff -W --word-diff /tmp/compare/874f13821f4193bd037cd37d005ee76b5a849398 /tmp/compare/82274c02ed2d82537dc55f008a29edb1bc09bbc4 $ ``` Tree-SHA512: 13ca5862fbb03771682b04a7523e581a7fe62e73620fa0e141cf1bc0a3b3f4e2e66bf14b46d1228e2b11b4960153545e7476f3295713a69b5cf5a28a7c2b358d
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
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, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoin.org/en/download, or read the original 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 and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md.
The developer mailing list should be used to discuss complicated or controversial changes before working on a patch set.
Developer IRC can be found on Freenode at #bitcoin-core-dev.
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, that are run automatically on the build server.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The Travis CI system makes sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and OS X, 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.
Translators should also subscribe to the mailing list.