Method GetStateSinceHeightFor

src/versionbits.cpp:150–183

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int AbstractThresholdConditionChecker::GetStateSinceHeightFor(const CBlockIndex* pindexPrev, const Consensus::Params& params, ThresholdConditionCache& cache) const
{
    int64_t start_time = BeginTime(params);
    if (start_time == Consensus::BIP9Deployment::ALWAYS_ACTIVE || start_time == Consensus::BIP9Deployment::NEVER_ACTIVE) {
        return 0;
    }

    const ThresholdState initialState = GetStateFor(pindexPrev, params, cache);

    // BIP 9 about state DEFINED: "The genesis block is by definition in this state for each deployment."
    if (initialState == ThresholdState::DEFINED) {
        return 0;
    }

    const int nPeriod = Period(params);

    // A block's state is always the same as that of the first of its period, so it is computed based on a pindexPrev whose height equals a multiple of nPeriod - 1.
    // To ease understanding of the following height calculation, it helps to remember that
    // right now pindexPrev points to the block prior to the block that we are computing for, thus:
    // if we are computing for the last block of a period, then pindexPrev points to the second to last block of the period, and
    // if we are computing for the first block of a period, then pindexPrev points to the last block of the previous period.
    // The parent of the genesis block is represented by nullptr.
    pindexPrev = pindexPrev->GetAncestor(pindexPrev->nHeight - ((pindexPrev->nHeight + 1) % nPeriod));

    const CBlockIndex* previousPeriodParent = pindexPrev->GetAncestor(pindexPrev->nHeight - nPeriod);

    while (previousPeriodParent != nullptr && GetStateFor(previousPeriodParent, params, cache) == initialState) {
        pindexPrev = previousPeriodParent;
        previousPeriodParent = pindexPrev->GetAncestor(pindexPrev->nHeight - nPeriod);
    }

    // Adjust the result because right now we point to the parent block.
    return pindexPrev->nHeight + 1;
}

namespace
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