Merge pull request #2168 from ethereum/docs-metadata-clarify

Clarify some metadata implications
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Alex Beregszaszi 2017-04-26 14:34:26 +01:00 committed by GitHub
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.. note::
Note the ABI definition above has no fixed order. It can change with compiler versions.
.. note::
Since the bytecode of the resulting contract contains the metadata hash, any change to
the metadata will result in a change of the bytecode. Furthermore, since the metadata
includes a hash of all the sources used, a single whitespace change in any of the source
codes will result in a different metadata, and subsequently a different bytecode.
Encoding of the Metadata Hash in the Bytecode
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