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authorGregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>2017-01-08 04:05:14 +0000
committerGregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>2017-01-12 14:21:43 +0000
commit997a98a674df70a2192e8d8b91c631e5c241509d (patch)
tree9e6b6376764ea1565b7105577ed6dabd72f78802 /src/chain.h
parent02e5308c1b9f3771bbe49bc5036215fa2bd66aa9 (diff)
downloadbitcoin-997a98a674df70a2192e8d8b91c631e5c241509d.tar.xz
Replace FindLatestBefore used by importmuti with FindEarliestAtLeast.
In spite of the name FindLatestBefore used std::lower_bound to try to find the earliest block with a nTime greater or equal to the the requested value. But lower_bound uses bisection and requires the input to be ordered with respect to the comparison operation. Block times are not well ordered. I don't know what lower_bound is permitted to do when the data is not sufficiently ordered, but it's probably not good. (I could construct an implementation which would infinite loop...) To resolve the issue this commit introduces a maximum-so-far to the block indexes and searches that. For clarity the function is renamed to reflect what it actually does. An issue that remains is that there is no grace period in importmulti: If a address is created at time T and a send is immediately broadcast and included by a miner with a slow clock there may not yet have been any block with at least time T. The normal rescan has a grace period of 7200 seconds, but importmulti does not.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/chain.h')
-rw-r--r--src/chain.h13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/chain.h b/src/chain.h
index 989a71958c..acb29b667b 100644
--- a/src/chain.h
+++ b/src/chain.h
@@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ public:
//! (memory only) Sequential id assigned to distinguish order in which blocks are received.
int32_t nSequenceId;
+ //! (memory only) Maximum nTime in the chain upto and including this block.
+ unsigned int nTimeMax;
+
void SetNull()
{
phashBlock = NULL;
@@ -216,6 +219,7 @@ public:
nChainTx = 0;
nStatus = 0;
nSequenceId = 0;
+ nTimeMax = 0;
nVersion = 0;
hashMerkleRoot = uint256();
@@ -281,6 +285,11 @@ public:
return (int64_t)nTime;
}
+ int64_t GetBlockTimeMax() const
+ {
+ return (int64_t)nTimeMax;
+ }
+
enum { nMedianTimeSpan=11 };
int64_t GetMedianTimePast() const
@@ -461,8 +470,8 @@ public:
/** Find the last common block between this chain and a block index entry. */
const CBlockIndex *FindFork(const CBlockIndex *pindex) const;
- /** Find the most recent block with timestamp lower than the given. */
- CBlockIndex* FindLatestBefore(int64_t nTime) const;
+ /** Find the earliest block with timestamp equal or greater than the given. */
+ CBlockIndex* FindEarliestAtLeast(int64_t nTime) const;
};
#endif // BITCOIN_CHAIN_H