From 1b59d8972bfb3e3ebd573407ff273596cdfa3afb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Ray <16969914+jamesray1@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:00:56 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] EIP-161: Hard fork ref, parameters and headings --- EIPS/eip-161.md | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/EIPS/eip-161.md b/EIPS/eip-161.md index cb15cb88..991e3600 100644 --- a/EIPS/eip-161.md +++ b/EIPS/eip-161.md @@ -7,10 +7,14 @@ Category: Core Status: Final Created: 2016-10-24 ``` +### Hard fork +[Spurious Dragon](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-607.md) + ### Parameters - `FORK_BLKNUM`: 2,675,000 - `CHAIN_ID`: 1 -# Specification + +### Specification a. Account creation transactions and the `CREATE` operation SHALL, prior to the execution of the initialisation code, **increment** the **nonce** over and above its normal starting value by **one** (for normal networks, this will be simply 1, however test-nets with non-zero default starting nonces will be different). @@ -36,7 +40,7 @@ An account _changes state_ when: - it is the source or creation of a `CREATE` operation or contract-creation transaction endowing **zero or more** value; - as the block author ("miner") it is the recipient of block-rewards or transaction-fees of **zero or more** value. -## Notes +#### Notes In the present Ethereum protocol, it should be noted that very few state changes can ultimately result in accounts that are empty following the execution of the transaction. In fact there are only four contexts that current implementations need track: - an empty account has zero value transferred to it through `CALL`; @@ -44,7 +48,7 @@ In the present Ethereum protocol, it should be noted that very few state changes - an empty account has zero value transferred to it through a message-call transaction; - an empty account has zero value transferred to it through a zero-gas-price fees transfer. -# Rationale +### Rationale Same as #158 except that several edge cases are avoided since we do not break invariants: - ~~that an account can go from having code and storage to not having code or storage mid-way through the execution of a transaction;~~ [corrected] @@ -52,11 +56,11 @@ Same as #158 except that several edge cases are avoided since we do not break in `CREATE` avoids zero in the nonce to avoid any suggestion of the oddity of `CREATE`d accounts being reaped half-way through their creation. -# Addendum (2017-08-15) +### Addendum (2017-08-15) On 2016-11-24, a consensus bug occurred due to two implementations having different behavior in the case of state reverts.[3] The specification was amended to clarify that empty account deletions are reverted when the state is reverted. -# References +### References 1. EIP-158 issue and discussion: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/158 2. EIP-161 issue and discussion: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/161