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Ava Chow 8b70ed6996 Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#34521: validation: fix UB in LoadChainTip
20ae9b98ea Extend functional test for setBlockIndexCandidates UB (marcofleon)
854a6d5a9a validation: fix UB in LoadChainTip (marcofleon)
9249e6089e validation: remove LoadChainTip call from ActivateSnapshot (marcofleon)

Pull request description:

  Addresses https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/34503. See this issue for more details as well.

  Fixes a bug where, under certain conditions, `setBlockIndexCandidates` had blocks in it that were worse than the tip. The block index candidate set uses `nSequenceId` as a sort key, so modifying this field while blocks are in the set results in undefined behavior. This PR populates `setBlockIndexCandidates` after the `nSequenceId` modifications, avoiding the UB.

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Test library

This contains files for the test library, which is used by the test binaries (unit tests, benchmarks, fuzzers, gui tests).

Generally, the files in this folder should be well-separated modules. New code should be added to existing modules or (when in doubt) a new module should be created.

The utilities in here are compiled into a library, which does not hold any state. However, the main file setup_common defines the common test setup for all test binaries. The test binaries will handle the global state when they instantiate the BasicTestingSetup (or one of its derived classes).