From 6d395a8b6c6c324bebb47f9674578c63362a0e5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Tang Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:58:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Automatically merged updates to draft EIP(s) 1702 (#2141) Hi, I'm a bot! This change was automatically merged because: - It only modifies existing Draft or Last Call EIP(s) - The PR was approved or written by at least one author of each modified EIP - The build is passing --- EIPS/eip-1702.md | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) diff --git a/EIPS/eip-1702.md b/EIPS/eip-1702.md index 604fb25133bad..0004443bdefb2 100644 --- a/EIPS/eip-1702.md +++ b/EIPS/eip-1702.md @@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ items: `nonce`, `balance`, `storageRoot`, `codeHash`, and items. When `version` is not zero, the account is RLP-encoded with 5 items. +Account versions can also optionally define additional account state +RLP fields, whose meaning are specified through its `version` +field. In those cases, the parsing strategy is defined in "Additional +Fields in Account State RLP" section. + ### Contract Execution When fetching an account code from state, we always fetch the @@ -98,6 +103,23 @@ Precompiled contracts and externally-owned addresses do not have `STATICCALL` / `DELEGATECALL` touches a new externally-owned address or a non-existing precompiled contract address, it is always created with `version` field being `0`. + +### Additional Fields in Account State RLP + +In the future we may need to associate more information into an +account, and we already have some EIPs that define new additional +fields in the account state RLP. In this section, we define the +parsing strategy when additional fields are added. + +* Check the RLP list length, if it is 4, then set account version to + `0`, and do not parse any additional fields. +* If the RLP list length more than 4, set the account version to the + integer at position `4` (counting from `0`). + * Check version specification for the number of additional fields + defined `N`, if the RLP list length is not equal to `5 + N`, + return parse error. + * Parse RLP position `5` to `4 + N` as the meaning specified in + additional fields. ## Extensions @@ -137,6 +159,17 @@ for example, EVM and eWASM. For each of them, we define: * **Features**: all additional features that are enabled upon this version. +If a meta EIP includes EIPs that provide additional account state RLP +fields, we also define: + +* **Account fields**: all account fields up to the end of this meta + EIP, excluding the basic 5 fields (`nonce`, `balance`, + `storageRoot`, `codeHash` and `version`). If EIPs included that are + specific to modifying account fields do not modify VM execution + logic, it is recommended that we specify an additional version whose + execution logic is the same as previous version, but only the + account fields are changed. + ## Rationale This introduces account versioning via a new RLP item in account