fbf327b Minimal code changes to allow msvc compilation. (Aaron Clauson)
Pull request description:
These changes are required to allow the Bitcoin source to build with Microsoft's C++ compiler (#11562 is also required).
I looked around for a better place for the typedef of ssize_t which is in random.h. The best candidate looks like src/compat.h but I figured including that header in random.h is a bigger change than the typedef. Note that the same typedef is in at least two other places including the OpenSSL and Berkeley DB headers so some of the Bitcoin code already picks it up.
Tree-SHA512: aa6cc6283015e08ab074641f9abdc116c4dc58574dc90f75e7a5af4cc82946d3052370e5cbe855fb6180c00f8dc66997d3724ff0412e4b7417e51b6602154825
Avoid static analyzer warnings regarding "Function call argument
is a pointer to uninitialized value" in cases where we are
intentionally using such arguments.
This is achieved by using ...
`f(b.begin(), b.end())` (`std::array<char, N>`)
... instead of ...
`f(b, b + N)` (`char b[N]`)
Rationale:
* Reduce false positives by guiding static analyzers regarding our
intentions.
Before this commit:
```
$ clang-tidy-3.5 -checks=* src/bench/base58.cpp
bench/base58.cpp:23:9: warning: Function call argument is a pointer to uninitialized value [clang-analyzer-core.CallAndMessage]
EncodeBase58(b, b + 32);
^
$ clang-tidy-3.5 -checks=* src/bench/verify_script.cpp
bench/verify_script.cpp:59:5: warning: Function call argument is a pointer to uninitialized value [clang-analyzer-core.CallAndMessage]
key.Set(vchKey, vchKey + 32, false);
^
$
```
After this commit:
```
$ clang-tidy-3.5 -checks=* src/bench/base58.cpp
$ clang-tidy-3.5 -checks=* src/bench/verify_script.cpp
$
```
Three categories of modifications:
1)
1 instance of 'The Bitcoin Core developers \n',
1 instance of 'the Bitcoin Core developers\n',
3 instances of 'Bitcoin Core Developers\n', and
12 instances of 'The Bitcoin developers\n'
are made uniform with the 443 instances of 'The Bitcoin Core developers\n'
2)
3 instances of 'BitPay, Inc\.\n' are made uniform with the other 6
instances of 'BitPay Inc\.\n'
3)
4 instances where there was no '(c)' between the 'Copyright' and the year
where it deviates from the style of the local directory.
