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Solidity v0.8.0 Breaking Changes
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This section highlights the main breaking changes introduced in Solidity
version 0.8.0.
For the full list check
`the release changelog <https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/releases/tag/v0.8.0>`_.
Silent Changes of the Semantics
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This section lists changes where existing code changes its behaviour without
the compiler notifying you about it.
* Arithmetic operations revert on underflow and overflow. You can use ``unchecked { ... }`` to use
the previous wrapping behaviour.
Checks for overflow are very common, so we made them the default to increase readability of code,
even if it comes at a slight increase of gas costs.
* Exponentiation is right associative, i.e., the expression ``a**b**c`` is parsed as ``a**(b**c)``.
Before 0.8.0, it was parsed as ``(a**b)**c``.
This is the common way to parse the exponentiation operator.
* Failing assertions and other internal checks like division by zero or arithmetic overflow do
not use the invalid opcode but instead the revert opcode.
More specifically, they will use error data equal to a function call to ``Panic(uint256)`` with an error code specific
to the circumstances.
This will save gas on errors while it still allows static analysis tools to distinguish
these situations from a revert on invalid input, like a failing ``require``.
New Restrictions
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* Explicit conversions from negative literals and literals larger
than ``type(uint160).max`` to ``address`` are disallowed.
The previous behaviour was likely ambiguous.
* Function call options can only be given once, i.e. ``c.f{gas: 10000}{value: 1}()`` is invalid and has to be changed to ``c.f{gas: 10000, value: 1}()``.
* The global functions ``log0``, ``log1``, ``log2``, ``log3`` and ``log4`` have been removed.
These are low-level functions that were largely unused. Their behaviour can be accessed from inline assembly.