From 1f51b73d71ee9a9621f915a85f3f07929c35f4f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Austin Abell <austinabell8@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 13:02:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix block gas limit return for dev tooling (#150)

* cap formatted -1 value of tendermint block gas limit

* return blank miner address for dev tooling checks
---
 rpc/eth_api.go | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rpc/eth_api.go b/rpc/eth_api.go
index 8058b5e5..f1f797c6 100644
--- a/rpc/eth_api.go
+++ b/rpc/eth_api.go
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ func formatBlock(
 		"logsBloom":        bloom,
 		"transactionsRoot": hexutil.Bytes(header.DataHash),
 		"stateRoot":        hexutil.Bytes(header.AppHash),
-		"miner":            hexutil.Bytes(header.ValidatorsHash),
+		"miner":            common.Address{},
 		"difficulty":       nil,
 		"totalDifficulty":  nil,
 		"extraData":        nil,
@@ -861,6 +861,12 @@ func (e *PublicEthAPI) getGasLimit() (int64, error) {
 
 	// Save value to gasLimit cached value
 	gasLimit := genesis.Genesis.ConsensusParams.Block.MaxGas
+	if gasLimit == -1 {
+		// Sets gas limit to max uint32 to not error with javascript dev tooling
+		// This -1 value indicating no block gas limit is set to max uint64 with geth hexutils
+		// which errors certain javascript dev tooling which only supports up to 53 bits
+		gasLimit = int64(^uint32(0))
+	}
 	e.gasLimit = &gasLimit
 	return gasLimit, nil
 }