a4f4f89815 Replace uint256 specific implementations of base_uint::GetHex() and base_uint::SetHex() with proper ones that don't depend on uint256 and replace template methods instantiations of base_uint with template class instantiation (Samer Afach)
Pull request description:
The current implementations of `SetHex()` and `GetHex()` in `base_uint` use `arith_uint256`'s implementations. Which means, any attempt to create anything other than `arith_uint256` (say `arith_uint512`) and using any of these functions (which is what I needed in my application) will just not work and will cause compilation errors (besides the immediate linking errors due to templates being in source files instantiated only for 256) because there's no viable conversion from `arith_uint256` and any of the other possible types. Besides that these function will yield wrong results even if the conversion is possible depending on the size. This is fixed in this PR.
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The implementation of base_uint::operator++(int) and base_uint::operator--(int) is now safer.
Array pn is accessed via index i after bounds checking has been performed on the index, rather than before.
The logic of the while loops has also been made more clear.
A compile time assertion has been added in the class constructors to ensure that BITS is a positive multiple of 32.
ad1ae7a Check and enable -Wshadow by default. (Pavel Janík)
9de90bb Do not shadow variables (gcc set) (Pavel Janík)
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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.
Remove initialization from vector (as this is only used in the tests).
Also implement SetHex and GetHex in terms of uint256, to avoid
duplicate code as well as avoid endianness issues (as they
work in term of bytes).
- Methods that access the guts of arith_uint256 are removed,
as these are incompatible between endians. Use uint256 instead
- Serialization is no longer needed as arith_uint256's are never
read or written
- GetHash is never used on arith_uint256
