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authorJon Atack <jon@atack.com>2022-06-12 12:37:41 +0200
committerJon Atack <jon@atack.com>2022-07-22 12:45:07 +0200
commit57865eb51288852c3ce99607eff76c61ae5f5365 (patch)
treebb3a755a8c91a8426980d7d2191d70bd929a31ee /src/chain.cpp
parent99e8ec8721a52cd08bdca31f6e926c9c1ce281fb (diff)
downloadbitcoin-57865eb51288852c3ce99607eff76c61ae5f5365.tar.xz
CDiskBlockIndex: rename GetBlockHash() to ConstructBlockHash()
and mark the inherited CBlockIndex#GetBlockHash public interface member as deleted, to disallow calling it in the derived CDiskBlockIndex class. Here is a failing test on master demonstrating the inconsistent behavior of the current design: calling the same inherited public interface functions on the same CDiskBlockIndex object should yield identical behavior. ```diff diff --git a/src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp b/src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp index 6dc522b421..dac3840f32 100644 --- a/src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp +++ b/src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp @@ -240,6 +240,15 @@ BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE(chainstatemanager_activate_snapshot, TestChain100Setup) const CBlockIndex* tip = chainman.ActiveTip(); BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(tip->nChainTx, au_data.nChainTx); + // CDiskBlockIndex "is a" CBlockIndex, as it publicly inherits from it. + // Test that calling the same inherited interface functions on the same + // object yields identical behavior. + CDiskBlockIndex index{tip}; + CBlockIndex *pB = &index; + CDiskBlockIndex *pD = &index; + BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(pB->GetBlockHash(), pD->GetBlockHash()); + BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(pB->ToString(), pD->ToString()); + ``` The GetBlockHash() test assertion only passes on master because the different methods invoked by the current design happen to return the same result. If one of the two is changed, it fails like the ToString() assertion does. Redefining inherited non-virtual functions is well-documented as incorrect design to avoid inconsistent behavior (see Scott Meyers, "Effective C++", Item 36). Class usage is confusing when the behavior depends on the pointer definition instead of the object definition (static binding happening where dynamic binding was expected). This can lead to unsuspected or hard-to-track bugs. Outside of critical hot spots, correctness usually comes before optimisation, but the current design dates back to main.cpp and it may possibly have been chosen to avoid the overhead of dynamic dispatch. This solution does the same: the class sizes are unchanged and no vptr or vtbl is added. There are better designs for doing this that use composition instead of inheritance or that separate the public interface from the private implementations. One example of the latter would be a non-virtual public interface that calls private virtual implementation methods, i.e. the Template pattern via the Non-Virtual Interface (NVI) idiom.
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