Some documentation.

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Daniel Kirchner 2019-11-14 17:56:10 +01:00
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@ -208,6 +208,48 @@ Restrictions for libraries in comparison to contracts:
(These might be lifted at a later point.)
.. _library-selectors:
Function Signatures and Selectors in Libraries
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While external calls to public or external library functions are possible, the calling convention for such calls
is considered to be internal to Solidity and not the same as specified for the regular :ref:`contract ABI<ABI>`.
External library functions support more argument types than external contract functions, for example recursive structs
and storage pointers. For that reason, the function signatures used to compute the 4-byte selector are computed
following an internal naming schema and arguments of types not supported in the contract ABI use an internal encoding.
The following identifiers are used for the types in the signatures:
- Value types, non-storage ``string`` and non-storage ``bytes`` use the same identifiers as in the contract ABI.
- Non-storage array types follow the same convention as in the contract ABI, i.e. ``<type>[]`` for dynamic arrays and
``<type>[M]`` for fixed-size arrays of ``M`` elements.
- Non-storage structs are referred to by their fully qualified name, i.e. ``C.S`` for ``contract C { struct S { ... } }``.
- Storage pointer types use the type identifier of their corresponding non-storage type, but append a single space
followed by ``storage`` to it.
The argument encoding is the same as for the regular contract ABI, except for storage pointers, which are encoded as a
``uint256`` value referring to the storage slot to which they point.
Similarly to the contract ABI, the selector consists of the first four bytes of the Keccak256-hash of the signature.
Its value can be obtained from Solidity using the ``.selector`` member as follows:
::
pragma solidity >0.5.13 <0.7.0;
library L {
function f(uint256) external {}
}
contract C {
function g() public pure returns (bytes4) {
return L.f.selector;
}
}
.. _call-protection:
Call Protection For Libraries