Returning the approximate total size eliminates the need for
InitS*Cache() to do nElems*sizeof(uint256). The cuckoocache has a better
idea of this information.
...instead of explicitly calling init::{Set,Unset}Globals.
Cool thing about this is that in both the testing and bitcoin-chainstate
codepaths, we no longer need to explicitly unset globals. The
kernel::Context goes out of scope and the globals are unset
"automatically".
Also construct kernel::Context outside of AppInitSanityChecks()
This decouples validation.cpp from netaddress.cpp (transitively,
timedata.cpp, and asmap.cpp).
This is important for libbitcoinkernel as:
- There is no reason for the consensus engine to be coupled with
netaddress, timedata, and asmap
- Users of libbitcoinkernel can now easily supply their own
std::function that provides the adjusted time.
See the src/Makefile.am changes for some satisfying removals.
[META] Although it seems like we don't need it for just one option,
we're going to introduce another member to this struct *in the
next commit*. In future patchsets for libbitcoinkernel decoupling
it from ArgsManager, even more members will be added here.
035fa1f07a build: Remove LIBTOOL_APP_LDFLAGS for bitcoin-chainstate (Cory Fields)
3f0595095d docs: Add libbitcoinkernel_la_SOURCES explanation (Carl Dong)
94ad45deb2 ci: Build libbitcoinkernel (Carl Dong)
26b2e7ffb3 build: Extract the libbitcoinkernel library (Carl Dong)
1df44dd20c b-cs: Define G_TRANSLATION_FUN in bitcoinkernel.cpp (Carl Dong)
83a0bb7cc9 build: Separate lib_LTLIBRARIES initialization (Carl Dong)
c1e16cb31f build: Create .la library for bitcoincrypto (Carl Dong)
8bdfe057c7 build: Create .la library for leveldb (Carl Dong)
05d1525b6d build: Create .la library for crc32c (Carl Dong)
64caf94479 build: Remove vestigial LIBLEVELDB_SSE42 (Carl Dong)
1392e8e2d8 build: Don't add unrelated libs to LIBTEST_* (Carl Dong)
Pull request description:
Part of: #24303
This PR introduces a `libbitcoinkernel` static library linking in the minimal list of files necessary to use our consensus engine as-is. `bitcoin-chainstate` introduced in #24304 now will link against `libbitcoinkernel`.
Most of the changes are related to the build system.
Please read the commit messages for more details.
ACKs for top commit:
theuni:
This may be my favorite PR ever. It's a privilege to ACK 035fa1f07a.
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In previous commits in this patchset, we've made sure that every
Unload/UnloadBlockIndex member function resets its own members, and does
not reach out to globals.
This means that their corresponding classes' default destructors can now
replace them, and do an even more thorough job without the need to be
updated for every new member variable.
Therefore, we can remove them, and also remove UnloadBlockIndex since
that's not used anymore.
Unfortunately, chainstatemanager_loadblockindex relies on
CChainState::UnloadBlockIndex, so that needs to stay for now.
[META] This is done in preparation for extracting libbitcoinkernel in a
following commit. It seems logical that generally users of a
library shouldn't need to export its own symbols to use the
library.
The bitcoin-chainstate executable serves to surface the dependencies
required by a program wishing to use Bitcoin Core's consensus engine as
it is right now.
More broadly, the _SOURCES list serves as a guiding "North Star" for the
libbitcoinkernel project: as we decouple more and more modules of the
codebase from our consensus engine, this _SOURCES list will grow shorter
and shorter. One day, only what is critical to our consensus engine will
remain. Right now, it's "the minimal list of files to link in to even
use our consensus engine".
[META] In a future commit the libbitcoinkernel library will be extracted
from bitcoin-chainstate, and the libbitcoinkernel library's
_SOURCES list will be the list that we aim to shrink.
