consensus, core/*, params: metropolis preparation refactor

This commit is a preparation for the upcoming metropolis hardfork. It
prepares the state, core and vm packages such that integration with
metropolis becomes less of a hassle.

* Difficulty calculation requires header instead of individual
  parameters
* statedb.StartRecord renamed to statedb.Prepare and added Finalise
  method required by metropolis, which removes unwanted accounts from
  the state (i.e. selfdestruct)
* State keeps record of destructed objects (in addition to dirty
  objects)
* core/vm pre-compiles may now return errors
* core/vm pre-compiles gas check now take the full byte slice as argument
  instead of just the size
* core/vm now keeps several hard-fork instruction tables instead of a
  single instruction table and removes the need for hard-fork checks in
  the instructions
* core/vm contains a empty restruction function which is added in
  preparation of metropolis write-only mode operations
* Adds the bn256 curve
* Adds and sets the metropolis chain config block parameters (2^64-1)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/core/vm/instructions.go b/core/vm/instructions.go
index bfc0a668e..fa4dbe428 100644
--- a/core/vm/instructions.go
+++ b/core/vm/instructions.go
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/params"
 )
 
-var bigZero = new(big.Int)
+var (
+	bigZero = new(big.Int)
+)
 
 func opAdd(pc *uint64, evm *EVM, contract *Contract, memory *Memory, stack *Stack) ([]byte, error) {
 	x, y := stack.pop(), stack.pop()
@@ -599,7 +601,7 @@ func opCall(pc *uint64, evm *EVM, contract *Contract, memory *Memory, stack *Sta
 	contract.Gas += returnGas
 
 	evm.interpreter.intPool.put(addr, value, inOffset, inSize, retOffset, retSize)
-	return nil, nil
+	return ret, nil
 }
 
 func opCallCode(pc *uint64, evm *EVM, contract *Contract, memory *Memory, stack *Stack) ([]byte, error) {
@@ -633,16 +635,10 @@ func opCallCode(pc *uint64, evm *EVM, contract *Contract, memory *Memory, stack
 	contract.Gas += returnGas
 
 	evm.interpreter.intPool.put(addr, value, inOffset, inSize, retOffset, retSize)
-	return nil, nil
+	return ret, nil
 }
 
 func opDelegateCall(pc *uint64, evm *EVM, contract *Contract, memory *Memory, stack *Stack) ([]byte, error) {
-	// if not homestead return an error. DELEGATECALL is not supported
-	// during pre-homestead.
-	if !evm.ChainConfig().IsHomestead(evm.BlockNumber) {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid opcode %x", DELEGATECALL)
-	}
-
 	gas, to, inOffset, inSize, outOffset, outSize := stack.pop().Uint64(), stack.pop(), stack.pop(), stack.pop(), stack.pop(), stack.pop()
 
 	toAddr := common.BigToAddress(to)
@@ -658,7 +654,7 @@ func opDelegateCall(pc *uint64, evm *EVM, contract *Contract, memory *Memory, st
 	contract.Gas += returnGas
 
 	evm.interpreter.intPool.put(to, inOffset, inSize, outOffset, outSize)
-	return nil, nil
+	return ret, nil
 }
 
 func opReturn(pc *uint64, evm *EVM, contract *Contract, memory *Memory, stack *Stack) ([]byte, error) {
@@ -666,6 +662,7 @@ func opReturn(pc *uint64, evm *EVM, contract *Contract, memory *Memory, stack *S
 	ret := memory.GetPtr(offset.Int64(), size.Int64())
 
 	evm.interpreter.intPool.put(offset, size)
+
 	return ret, nil
 }