From 681b399e2a0a64303ee4c09c0bb780334c0e99da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jacek Sieka <jacek@status.im>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 10:31:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] avoid memory alloc when padding (#1058)

also avoid stack state copy in test
---
 beacon_chain/ssz.nim | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/beacon_chain/ssz.nim b/beacon_chain/ssz.nim
index 46f3e8e4d..c6f8db332 100644
--- a/beacon_chain/ssz.nim
+++ b/beacon_chain/ssz.nim
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ func mergeBranches(existing: Eth2Digest, newData: openarray[byte]): Eth2Digest =
     let paddingBytes = bytesPerChunk - newData.len
     if paddingBytes > 0:
       trs "USING ", paddingBytes, " PADDING BYTES"
-      h.update zeroChunk[0 ..< paddingBytes]
+      h.update zeroChunk.toOpenArray(0, paddingBytes - 1)
   trs "HASH RESULT ", result
 
 template mergeBranches(a, b: Eth2Digest): Eth2Digest =