de4242f47476769d0a7f3e79e8297ed2dd60d9a4 refactor: Use reference for chain_start in HeadersSyncState (Daniela Brozzoni)
e37555e5401f9fca39ada0bd153e46b2c7ebd095 refactor: Use initializer list in CompressedHeader (Daniela Brozzoni)
0488bdfefe92b2c9a924be9244c91fe472462aab refactor: Remove unused parameter in ReportHeadersPresync (Daniela Brozzoni)
256246a9fa5b05141c93aeeb359394b9c7a80e49 refactor: Remove redundant parameter from CheckHeadersPoW (Daniela Brozzoni)
ca0243e3a6d77d2b218749f1ba113b81444e3f4a refactor: Remove useless CBlock::GetBlockHeader (Pieter Wuille)
45686522224598bed9923e60daad109094d7bc29 refactor: Use std::span in HasValidProofOfWork (Daniela Brozzoni)
4066bfe561a45f61a3c9bf24bec7f600ddcc7467 refactor: Compute work from headers without CBlockIndex (Daniela Brozzoni)
0bf6139e194f355d121bb2aea74715d1c4099598 p2p: Avoid an IsAncestorOfBestHeaderOrTip call (Pieter Wuille)
Pull request description:
This is a partial* revival of #25968
It contains a list of most-unrelated simplifications and optimizations to the code merged in #25717:
- Avoid an IsAncestorOfBestHeaderOrTip call: Just don't call this function when it won't have any effect.
- Compute work from headers without CBlockIndex: Avoid the need to construct a CBlockIndex object just to compute work for a header, when its nBits value suffices for that. Also use some Spans where possible.
- Remove useless CBlock::GetBlockHeader: There is no need for a function to convert a CBlock to a CBlockHeader, as it's a child class of it.
It also contains the following code cleanups, which were suggested by reviewers in #25968:
- Remove redundant parameter from CheckHeadersPoW: No need to pass consensusParams, as CheckHeadersPow already has access to m_chainparams.GetConsensus()
- Remove unused parameter in ReportHeadersPresync
- Use initializer list in CompressedHeader, also make GetFullHeader const
- Use reference for chain_start in HeadersSyncState: chain_start can never be null, so it's better to pass it as a reference rather than a raw pointer
*I decided to leave out three commits that were in #25968 (4e7ac7b94d04e056e9994ed1c8273c52b7b23931, ab52fb4e95aa2732d1a1391331ea01362e035984, 7f1cf440ca1a9c86085716745ca64d3ac26957c0), since they're a bit more involved, and I'm a new contributor. If this PR gets merged, I'll comment under #25968 to note that these three commits are still up for grabs :)
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chainparams.cpp - workaround for MSVC bug triggering C7595 - Calling consteval constructors in initializer lists fails, but works on GCC (13.2.0) & Clang (17.0.6).
