Reduce the amount of runtime-initialized constants #191

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   sipa commented at 10:21 pm on January 21, 2015: contributor

   Instead of having per-subsystem context that gets initialized at runtime, use some macros to write them directly as C static consts. Less code, faster, more readable.
2. sipa renamed this:
   Convert the scalar constant initialization to static consts
   Reduce the amount of runtime-initialized constants
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   gmaxwell commented at 6:51 am on January 22, 2015: contributor

   Dogmatic macro hygiene nit: Macro variables should always be parenthesized lest someone change whats passed in and cause a really-surprising-parsing incident.

   (I probably wouldn’t comment for this but I know eventually– once the code is strictly C89– I’ll run some static analysis tool on the codebase that whines because of CERT PRE01-C or MIRSA-C rule 96)

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   sipa commented at 3:30 am on January 23, 2015: contributor

   @gmaxwell Nit addressed.
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   gmaxwell commented at 3:43 am on January 23, 2015: contributor

   ACK
9. Convert the scalar constant initialization to static consts f1ebfe399f
10. Remove unused secp256k1_fe_inner_{start, stop} functions 19f3e76002
11. Convert the field/group/ecdsa constant initialization to static consts 4732d26069
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13. sipa merged this on Jan 23, 2015
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15. sipa referenced this in commit a9f350d309 on Jan 23, 2015

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