diff --git a/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst b/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst index 3a12c630a..7fcb2d7ad 100644 --- a/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst +++ b/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst @@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ same as ``sha3(uint16(0x12))``. It might be that you run into Out-of-Gas for ``sha256``, ``ripemd160`` or ``ecrecover`` on a *private blockchain*. The reason for this is that those are implemented as so-called precompiled contracts and these contracts only really exist after they received the first message (although their contract code is hardcoded). Messages to non-existing contracts are more expensive and thus the execution runs into an Out-of-Gas error. A workaround for this problem is to first send e.g. 1 Wei to each of the contracts before you use them in your actual contracts. This is not an issue on the official or test net. -.. index:: send, balance +.. _balance: +.. _send: Address Related ---------------