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-rw-r--r--core/chain_util.go10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/core/chain_util.go b/core/chain_util.go
index 96c9a03d8..7e3d8eba8 100644
--- a/core/chain_util.go
+++ b/core/chain_util.go
@@ -31,10 +31,16 @@ import (
// CalcDifficulty is the difficulty adjustment algorithm. It returns
// the difficulty that a new block b should have when created at time
// given the parent block's time and difficulty.
-func CalcDifficulty(time int64, parentTime int64, parentDiff *big.Int) *big.Int {
+func CalcDifficulty(time, parentTime uint64, parentDiff *big.Int) *big.Int {
diff := new(big.Int)
adjust := new(big.Int).Div(parentDiff, params.DifficultyBoundDivisor)
- if big.NewInt(time-parentTime).Cmp(params.DurationLimit) < 0 {
+ bigTime := new(big.Int)
+ bigParentTime := new(big.Int)
+
+ bigTime.SetUint64(time)
+ bigParentTime.SetUint64(parentTime)
+
+ if bigTime.Sub(bigTime, bigParentTime).Cmp(params.DurationLimit) < 0 {
diff.Add(parentDiff, adjust)
} else {
diff.Sub(parentDiff, adjust)