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| author | Luke Dashjr <luke_github1@dashjr.org> | 2020-10-01 14:07:41 +0000 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-10-01 14:07:41 +0000 |
| commit | 94073deb66c771918e29668262b62983224ea778 (patch) | |
| tree | 573d8c967b5f28260ccc7cca8df605c16608feba /bip-0155.mediawiki | |
| parent | 60bfc4bb53dbff6795f7c02a10c9e9e31907be26 (diff) | |
| parent | 87ef5aaa7c10f4696d1fb0cc152bc3c0142acf8f (diff) | |
| download | bips-94073deb66c771918e29668262b62983224ea778.tar.xz | |
Merge pull request #967 from vasild/bip155_time_and_varint
BIP155: clarify variable integer format and change time to fixed 32 bit
Diffstat (limited to 'bip-0155.mediawiki')
| -rw-r--r-- | bip-0155.mediawiki | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/bip-0155.mediawiki b/bip-0155.mediawiki index 1364a3f..f437043 100644 --- a/bip-0155.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0155.mediawiki @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ The <code>addrv2</code> message is defined as a message where <code>pchCommand = It is serialized in the standard encoding for P2P messages. Its format is similar to the current <code>addr</code> message format <ref>[https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-reference#addr Bitcoin Developer Reference: addr message]</ref>, with the difference that the -fixed 16-byte IP address is replaced by a network ID and a variable-length address, and the time and services format has been changed to VARINT. +fixed 16-byte IP address is replaced by a network ID and a variable-length address, and the services format has been changed to [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#Variable_length_integer CompactSize]. This means that the message contains a serialized <code>std::vector</code> of the following structure: @@ -55,13 +55,13 @@ This means that the message contains a serialized <code>std::vector</code> of th !Name !Description |- -| <code>VARINT</code> (unsigned) +| <code>uint32_t</code> | <code>time</code> -| Time that this node was last seen as connected to the network. A time in Unix epoch time format, up to 64 bits wide. +| Time that this node was last seen as connected to the network. A time in Unix epoch time format. |- -| <code>VARINT</code> (unsigned) +| <code>CompactSize</code> | <code>services</code> -| Service bits. A 64-wide bit field. +| Service bits. A bit field that is 64 bits wide, encoded in [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#Variable_length_integer CompactSize]. |- | <code>uint8_t</code> | <code>networkID</code> @@ -144,9 +144,7 @@ The reference implementation is available at (to be done) ==Acknowledgements== -- Jonas Schnelli: change <code>services</code> field to VARINT, to make the message more compact in the likely case instead of always using 8 bytes. - -- Luke-Jr: change <code>time</code> field to VARINT, for post-2038 compatibility. +- Jonas Schnelli: change <code>services</code> field to [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#Variable_length_integer CompactSize], to make the message more compact in the likely case instead of always using 8 bytes. - Gregory Maxwell: various suggestions regarding extensibility |