This introduces a new error named ErrCheckSigAltVerify and modifies the
opcodeCheckSigAltVerify handler to use the abstractVerify function along
with the new error. This makes the handling consistent with all other
signature checking verification opcode handlers and ensures the error
both can be programmatically detected as well as be uniquely identified
as compared to a generic verify failure.
This removes the ScriptBip16 flag from the txscript package, changes the
default semantics to always enforce its behavior, and updates all
callers in the repository accordingly.
This change is being made to simplify the script engine code since the
flag has always been active and required by consensus in Decred, so there is
no need to require a flag to conditionally toggle it.
Also, since it is no longer possible to invoke the script engine without
the flag with the clean stack flag, it removes the now unused
ErrInvalidFlags error and associated tests.
It should be noted that the test removed from script_tests.json
specifically dealt with ensuring a signature script that contained
non-data-pushing opcodes was successful when neither the ScriptBip16 or
ScriptVerifySigPushOnly flags were set. Therefore, it is no longer
necessary.
Finally, the P2SH indicator to enable the flag in the test data has been
retained for now in order to keep the logic changes separate.
This converts the majority of script errors from generic errors created
via errors.New and fmt.Errorf to use a concrete type that implements the
error interface with an error code and description.
This allows callers to programmatically detect the type of error via
type assertions and an error code while still allowing the errors to
provide more context.
For example, instead of just having an error the reads "disabled opcode"
as would happen prior to these changes when a disabled opcode is
encountered, the error will now read "attempt to execute disabled opcode
OP_FOO".
While it was previously possible to programmatically detect many errors
due to them being exported, they provided no additional context and
there were also various instances that were just returning errors
created on the spot which callers could not reliably detect without
resorting to looking at the actual error message, which is nearly always
bad practice.
Also, while here, export the MaxStackSize and MaxScriptSize constants
since they can be useful for consumers of the package and perform some
minor cleanup of some of the tests.
