New Page: EVM quirks

[maurelian]

This page should be a collection of all the little low level idiosyncracies. Code examples would be optional. This page should be succinct, and mostly link to external references.

Things like:

• Only 63/64 gas is forwarded on a CALL (EIP 150)
• If a contract is SelfDestructed, it isn't removed from state until after the transaction is completed. (Yellow paper 6.1)
• A call to a contract with no code places a 0x1 on the stack.

[shayanb]

This paper might be useful for this section Solidity Parsing Using SmaCC: Challenges and Irregularities

[Destiner]

• blockhash only works for 256 most recent, excluding current, blocks

[maurelian]

^ good example.

[smarx]

I believe that this is changing in Constantinople. See http://swende.se/blog/Blockhash-Refactor.html. There will still be non-obvious limitations on what hashes you can retrieve, but it will no longer be limited to the most recent 256.