parmas, crypto, core, core/vm: homestead consensus protocol changes

* change gas cost for contract creating txs
* invalidate signature with s value greater than secp256k1 N / 2
* OOG contract creation if not enough gas to store code
* new difficulty adjustment algorithm
* new DELEGATECALL op code

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/params/util.go b/params/util.go
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+// Copyright 2015 The go-ethereum Authors
+// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
+//
+// The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// The go-ethereum library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+// along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+package params
+
+import "math/big"
+
+// TODO: set exact block number after community consensus is reached.
+var HomesteadBlock *big.Int = big.NewInt(0)
+
+func IsHomestead(blockNumber *big.Int) bool {
+	// for unit tests TODO: flip to true after homestead is live
+	if blockNumber == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	return blockNumber.Cmp(HomesteadBlock) >= 0
+}