There are no changes to behavior. Changes in this commit are all additions, and
are easiest to review using "git diff -U0 --word-diff-regex=." options.
Motivation for this change is to keep util functions with really generic names
like "Split" and "Join" out of the global namespace so it is easier to see
where these functions are defined, and so they don't interfere with function
overloading, especially since the util library is a dependency of the kernel
library and intended to be used with external code.
202291722300b86f36e97de7960d40a32544c2d1 Add secp256k1_selftest call (Pieter Wuille)
3bfca788b0dae879bfc745cc52c2cb6edc49fd70 Remove explicit enabling of default modules (Pieter Wuille)
4462cb04986d77eddcfc6e8f75e04dc278a8147a Adapt to libsecp256k1 API changes (Pieter Wuille)
9d47e7b71b2805430e8c7b43816efd225a6ccd8c Squashed 'src/secp256k1/' changes from 44c2452fd3..21ffe4b22a (Pieter Wuille)
Pull request description:
Now that libsecp256k1 has a release (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-December/021271.html), update the subtree to match it.
The changes themselves are not very impactful for Bitcoin Core, but include:
* It's no longer needed to specify whether contexts are for signing or verification or both (all contexts support everything), so make use of that in this PR.
* Verification operations can use the static context now, removing the need for some infrastructure in pubkey.cpp to make sure a context exists.
* Most modules are now enabled by default, so we can drop explicit enabling for them.
* CI improvements (in particular, MSVC and more recent MacOS)
* Introduction of an internal int128 type, which has no effect for GCC/Clang builds, but enables 128-bit multiplication in MSVC, giving a ~20% speedup there (but still slower than GCC/Clang).
* Release process changes (process documentation, changelog, ...).
ACKs for top commit:
Sjors:
ACK 202291722300b86f36e97de7960d40a32544c2d1, but 4462cb04986d77eddcfc6e8f75e04dc278a8147a could use more eyes on it.
achow101:
ACK 202291722300b86f36e97de7960d40a32544c2d1
jonasnick:
utACK 202291722300b86f36e97de7960d40a32544c2d1
Tree-SHA512: 8a9fe28852abe74abd6f96fef16a94d5a427b1d99bff4caab1699014d24698aab9b966a5364a46ed1001c07a7c1d825154ed4e6557c7decce952b77330a8616b
* Use SECP256K1_CONTEXT_NONE when creating signing context, as
SECP256K1_CONTEXT_SIGN is deprecated and unnecessary.
* Use secp256k1_static_context where applicable.
Base32/base64 are mechanisms for encoding binary data. That they'd
decode to a string is just bizarre. The fact that they'd do that
based on the type of input arguments even more so.
