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, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/core/types/transaction_signing.go b/core/types/transaction_signing.go
index b4bab0aad..e50b656b3 100644
--- a/core/types/transaction_signing.go
+++ b/core/types/transaction_signing.go
@@ -27,7 +27,12 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/params"
 )
 
-var ErrInvalidChainId = errors.New("invalid chaid id for signer")
+var (
+	ErrInvalidChainId = errors.New("invalid chaid id for signer")
+
+	errAbstractSigner     = errors.New("abstract signer")
+	abstractSignerAddress = common.HexToAddress("ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff")
+)
 
 // sigCache is used to cache the derived sender and contains
 // the signer used to derive it.
@@ -103,6 +108,17 @@ type Signer interface {
 	Equal(Signer) bool
 }
 
+/*
+// WithSignature returns a new transaction with the given signature. This signature
+// needs to be in the [R || S || V] format where V is 0 or 1.
+func (s EIP86Signer) WithSignature(tx *Transaction, sig []byte) (*Transaction, error) {
+}
+
+// Hash returns the hash to be signed by the sender.
+// It does not uniquely identify the transaction.
+func (s EIP86Signer) Hash(tx *Transaction) common.Hash {}
+*/
+
 // EIP155Transaction implements TransactionInterface using the
 // EIP155 rules
 type EIP155Signer struct {