Refactoring and added documentation comments

ethutil/asm.go

@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ var OpCodes = map[string]byte{
 	"SUICIDE": 0x7f,
 }
 
+// Is op code
+//
+// Check whether the given string matches anything in
+// the OpCode list
 func IsOpCode(s string) bool {
 	for key, _ := range OpCodes {
 		if key == s {
@@ -88,6 +92,10 @@ func IsOpCode(s string) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
+// Compile instruction
+//
+// Attempts to compile and parse the given instruction in "s"
+// and returns the byte sequence
 func CompileInstr(s interface{}) ([]byte, error) {
 	switch s.(type) {
 	case string:
@@ -119,8 +127,9 @@ func CompileInstr(s interface{}) ([]byte, error) {
 	return nil, nil
 }
 
-// Script compilation functions
-// Compiles strings to machine code
+// Assemble
+//
+// Assembles the given instructions and returns EVM byte code
 func Assemble(instructions ...interface{}) (script []byte) {
 	//script = make([]string, len(instructions))
 
@@ -134,38 +143,22 @@ func Assemble(instructions ...interface{}) (script []byte) {
 	return
 }
 
-/*
-Prepocessing function that takes init and main apart:
-init() {
-	// something
-}
-
-main() {
-	// main something
-}
+// Pre process script
+//
+// Take data apart and attempt to find the "init" section and
+// "main" section. `main { } init { }`
 func PreProcess(data string) (mainInput, initInput string) {
-	reg := "\\(\\)\\s*{([\\d\\w\\W\\n\\s]+?)}"
-	mainReg := regexp.MustCompile("main" + reg)
-	initReg := regexp.MustCompile("init" + reg)
-
-	main := mainReg.FindStringSubmatch(data)
-	if len(main) > 0 {
-		mainInput = main[1]
-	} else {
+	mainInput = getCodeSectionFor("main", data)
+	if mainInput == "" {
 		mainInput = data
 	}
-
-	init := initReg.FindStringSubmatch(data)
-	if len(init) > 0 {
-		initInput = init[1]
-	}
+	initInput = getCodeSectionFor("init", data)
 
 	return
 }
-*/
 
 // Very, very dumb parser. Heed no attention :-)
-func FindFor(blockMatcher, input string) string {
+func getCodeSectionFor(blockMatcher, input string) string {
 	curCount := -1
 	length := len(blockMatcher)
 	matchfst := rune(blockMatcher[0])
@@ -198,13 +191,3 @@ func FindFor(blockMatcher, input string) string {
 
 	return currStr
 }
-
-func PreProcess(data string) (mainInput, initInput string) {
-	mainInput = FindFor("main", data)
-	if mainInput == "" {
-		mainInput = data
-	}
-	initInput = FindFor("init", data)
-
-	return
-}

ethutil/big.go

@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ var BigTrue *big.Int = big.NewInt(1)
 // False
 var BigFalse *big.Int = big.NewInt(0)
 
-// Returns the power of two integers
+// Big pow
+//
+// Returns the power of two big integers
 func BigPow(a, b int) *big.Int {
 	c := new(big.Int)
 	c.Exp(big.NewInt(int64(a)), big.NewInt(int64(b)), big.NewInt(0))
@@ -20,7 +22,9 @@ func BigPow(a, b int) *big.Int {
 	return c
 }
 
-// Like big.NewInt(uint64); this takes a string instead.
+// Big
+//
+// Shortcut for new(big.Int).SetString(..., 0)
 func Big(num string) *big.Int {
 	n := new(big.Int)
 	n.SetString(num, 0)
@@ -28,7 +32,9 @@ func Big(num string) *big.Int {
 	return n
 }
 
-// Like big.NewInt(uint64); this takes a byte buffer instead.
+// BigD
+//
+// Shortcut for new(big.Int).SetBytes(...)
 func BigD(data []byte) *big.Int {
 	n := new(big.Int)
 	n.SetBytes(data)
@@ -36,21 +42,26 @@ func BigD(data []byte) *big.Int {
 	return n
 }
 
+// Big to bytes
+//
+// Returns the bytes of a big integer with the size specified by **base**
+// Attempts to pad the byte array with zeros.
 func BigToBytes(num *big.Int, base int) []byte {
 	ret := make([]byte, base/8)
 
 	return append(ret[:len(ret)-len(num.Bytes())], num.Bytes()...)
 }
 
-// Functions like the build in "copy" function
-// but works on big integers
-func BigCopy(src *big.Int) (ret *big.Int) {
-	ret = new(big.Int)
-	ret.Add(ret, src)
-
-	return
+// Big copy
+//
+// Creates a copy of the given big integer
+func BigCopy(src *big.Int) *big.Int {
+	return new(big.Int).Set(src)
 }
 
+// Big max
+//
+// Returns the maximum size big integer
 func BigMax(x, y *big.Int) *big.Int {
 	if x.Cmp(y) <= 0 {
 		return x

ethutil/bytes.go

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 )
 
+// Number to bytes
+//
+// Returns the number in bytes with the specified base
 func NumberToBytes(num interface{}, bits int) []byte {
 	buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
 	err := binary.Write(buf, binary.BigEndian, num)
@@ -16,6 +19,9 @@ func NumberToBytes(num interface{}, bits int) []byte {
 	return buf.Bytes()[buf.Len()-(bits/8):]
 }
 
+// Bytes to number
+//
+// Attempts to cast a byte slice to a unsigned integer
 func BytesToNumber(b []byte) uint64 {
 	var number uint64
 
@@ -32,7 +38,9 @@ func BytesToNumber(b []byte) uint64 {
 	return number
 }
 
-// Read variable integer in big endian
+// Read variable int
+//
+// Read a variable length number in big endian byte order
 func ReadVarint(reader *bytes.Reader) (ret uint64) {
 	if reader.Len() == 8 {
 		var num uint64
@@ -55,6 +63,9 @@ func ReadVarint(reader *bytes.Reader) (ret uint64) {
 	return ret
 }
 
+// Binary length
+//
+// Returns the true binary length of the given number
 func BinaryLength(num int) int {
 	if num == 0 {
 		return 0

ethutil/common.go

@@ -5,16 +5,20 @@ import (
 	"math/big"
 )
 
+// The different number of units
 var (
 	Ether  = BigPow(10, 18)
 	Finney = BigPow(10, 15)
 	Szabo  = BigPow(10, 12)
-	Vito   = BigPow(10, 9)
+	Vita   = BigPow(10, 9)
 	Turing = BigPow(10, 6)
 	Eins   = BigPow(10, 3)
 	Wei    = big.NewInt(1)
 )
 
+// Currency to string
+//
+// Returns a string representing a human readable format
 func CurrencyToString(num *big.Int) string {
 	switch {
 	case num.Cmp(Ether) >= 0:
@@ -23,8 +27,8 @@ func CurrencyToString(num *big.Int) string {
 		return fmt.Sprintf("%v Finney", new(big.Int).Div(num, Finney))
 	case num.Cmp(Szabo) >= 0:
 		return fmt.Sprintf("%v Szabo", new(big.Int).Div(num, Szabo))
-	case num.Cmp(Vito) >= 0:
-		return fmt.Sprintf("%v Vito", new(big.Int).Div(num, Vito))
+	case num.Cmp(Vita) >= 0:
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%v Vita", new(big.Int).Div(num, Vita))
 	case num.Cmp(Turing) >= 0:
 		return fmt.Sprintf("%v Turing", new(big.Int).Div(num, Turing))
 	case num.Cmp(Eins) >= 0:
@@ -34,6 +38,7 @@ func CurrencyToString(num *big.Int) string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf("%v Wei", num)
 }
 
+// Common big integers often used
 var (
 	Big1   = big.NewInt(1)
 	Big2   = big.NewInt(1)
@@ -42,6 +47,7 @@ var (
 	Big256 = big.NewInt(0xff)
 )
 
+// Creates an ethereum address given the bytes and the nonce
 func CreateAddress(b []byte, nonce *big.Int) []byte {
 	addrBytes := append(b, nonce.Bytes()...)
 

ethutil/config.go

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"runtime"
 )
 
+// Log types available
 type LogType byte
 
 const (
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ const (
 	LogTypeFile  = 2
 )
 
-// Config struct isn't exposed
+// Config struct
 type config struct {
 	Db Database
 
@@ -31,7 +32,9 @@ type config struct {
 
 var Config *config
 
-// Read config doesn't read anything yet.
+// Read config
+//
+// Initialize the global Config variable with default settings
 func ReadConfig(base string) *config {
 	if Config == nil {
 		usr, _ := user.Current()
@@ -56,6 +59,8 @@ func ReadConfig(base string) *config {
 	return Config
 }
 
+// Set client string
+//
 func (c *config) SetClientString(str string) {
 	Config.ClientString = fmt.Sprintf("%s nv%s/%s", str, c.Ver, runtime.GOOS)
 }

ethutil/rlp.go

@@ -26,16 +26,6 @@ func (coder *RlpEncoder) EncodeData(rlpData interface{}) []byte {
 	return Encode(rlpData)
 }
 
-/*
-func FromBin(data []byte) uint64 {
-	if len(data) == 0 {
-		return 0
-	}
-
-	return FromBin(data[:len(data)-1])*256 + uint64(data[len(data)-1])
-}
-*/
-
 const (
 	RlpEmptyList = 0x80
 	RlpEmptyStr  = 0x40