Metadata is provided as JSON string, rather than as JSON object. This
ensures that we can decode to a set of bytes that will be consistent
with the swarm hash embedded in the code, without worrying about
ambiguities of spacing, ordering, or escaping.
The crash when compiling stdin was fixed in solc 0.3.6 (released
2016-08-10). While here, simplify the test so it runs with any solc
version.
Fixes#3484. The byte code was different for each run because recent
solc embeds the swarm hash of contract metadata into the code. When
compiling from stdin the name in the metadata is constant.
Support for legacy version 0.9.x is gone. The compiler version is no
longer cached. Compilation results (and the version) are read directly
from stdout using the --combined-json flag. As a workaround for
ethereum/solidity#651, source code is written to a temporary file before
compilation.
Integration of solc in package ethapi and cmd/abigen is now much simpler
because the compiler wrapper is no longer passed around as a pointer.
Fixes#2806, accidentally
* adapt to new compiler versioning
* use compiler version as language version
* implement new solc API for versions >= 0.1.[2-9][0-9]* fixes#1770
* add optimize=1 to options
* backward compatibility (for now) for <= 0.1.1, and old versions (0.[2-9][0-9]*.[0-9]+)
* introduce compilerOptions to ContractInfo
* clean up flair, include full version string to version line and ContractInfo
* resolver -> common/registrar
* global registrar name registry interface
* add Call to resolver backend interface
* the hashReg and UrlHing contracts now initialised from global registry
* initialization of contracts uniform
* improve errors and more econsistent method names
* common/registrar/ethreg: versioned registrar
* integrate new naming and registrar in natspec
* js console api: setGlobalRegistrar, setHashReg, setUrlHint
* js test TestContract uses mining - tests fixed all pass
* eth/backend: allow PoW test mode (small ethash DAG)
* console jsre refers to resolver.abi/addr,
* cmd/geth/contracts.go moved to common/registrar
* common/compiler: solidity compiler + tests
* rpc: eth_compilers, eth_compileSolidity + tests
* fix natspec test using keystore API, notice exp dynamically changes addr, cleanup
* resolver implements registrars and needs to create reg contract (temp)
* xeth: solidity compiler. expose getter Solc() and paths setter SetSolc(solcPath)
* ethereumApi: implement compiler related RPC calls using XEth - json struct tests
* admin: make use of XEth.SetSolc to allow runtime setting of compiler paths
* cli: command line flags solc to set custom solc bin path
* js admin api with new features debug and contractInfo modules
* wiki is the doc https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Contracts-and-Transactions
