Add self-tests at startup #4081

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   laanwj commented at 2:31 pm on April 22, 2014: member

   The idea would be to test basic sanity of the execution environment and dependencies. for example:

   • check std::list and the functions overridden in the compatibility wrappers for older glibc/glibc++
   • test basic secp256k operations
   • test hash functions

   This idea was brought up by @sipa in issue #4042. The tests should run very quickly (<0.1 second).

2. laanwj added the label Improvement on Apr 22, 2014
3. laanwj added the label Priority Medium on Apr 22, 2014
4. laanwj added the label Tests on May 6, 2014
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   laanwj commented at 4:37 pm on February 9, 2016: member

   Implemented by #4339
9. laanwj closed this on Feb 9, 2016

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10. 
    dcousens commented at 11:34 pm on February 9, 2016: contributor

    @laanwj what about libsecp256k and the hash functions?
11. 
    laanwj commented at 10:33 am on February 10, 2016: member

    Sure, you could do that… (but the prime motivation here was to do this because these operations were performed by external libraries - now that secp256k1 is internal, and the hash functions are also performed by our own code, I’m not sure what kind of errors it is supposed to catch)
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