ChainstateManager::ProcessNewBlockHeaders

Process incoming block headers.

Synopsis

Declared in <validation.h>

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bool
ProcessNewBlockHeaders(
    std::span<CBlockHeader const> headers,
    bool min_pow_checked,
    BlockValidationState& state,
    CBlockIndex const** ppindex = nullptr);

Description

May not be called in a validationinterface callback.

Return Value

false if AcceptBlockHeader fails on any of the headers, true otherwise (including if headers were already known)

Parameters

Name

Description

headers [in]

The block headers themselves

min_pow_checked [in]

True if proof‐of‐work anti‐DoS checks have been done by caller for headers chain

state [out]

This may be set to an Error state if any error occurred processing them

ppindex [out]

If set, the pointer will be set to point to the last new block index object for the given headers

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