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diff --git a/docs/miscellaneous.rst b/docs/miscellaneous.rst index 7be46eac..914dfacd 100644 --- a/docs/miscellaneous.rst +++ b/docs/miscellaneous.rst @@ -317,6 +317,12 @@ Comments are of course also not permitted and used here only for explanatory pur .. note:: Note the ABI definition above has no fixed order. It can change with compiler versions. +.. note:: + Since the bytecode of the resulting contract contains the metadata hash, any change to + the metadata will result in a change of the bytecode. Furthermore, since the metadata + includes a hash of all the sources used, a single whitespace change in any of the source + codes will result in a different metadata, and subsequently a different bytecode. + Encoding of the Metadata Hash in the Bytecode ============================================= |