Correct documentation for isContract check (#2017)

* Correct documentation for isContract check

* Update Address.sol

* Update Address.sol

* add missing newline before asciidoc list
pull/2026/head
William Entriken 5 years ago committed by Nicolás Venturo
parent 3eaf50005f
commit 5d47aa85bc
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      contracts/utils/Address.sol

@ -7,19 +7,21 @@ library Address {
/**
* @dev Returns true if `account` is a contract.
*
* This test is non-exhaustive, and there may be false-negatives: during the
* execution of a contract's constructor, its address will be reported as
* not containing a contract.
* [IMPORTANT]
* ====
* It is unsafe to assume that an address for which this function returns
* false is an externally-owned account (EOA) and not a contract.
*
* IMPORTANT: It is unsafe to assume that an address for which this
* function returns false is an externally-owned account (EOA) and not a
* contract.
* Among others, `isContract` will return false for the following
* types of addresses:
*
* - an externally-owned account
* - a contract in construction
* - an address where a contract will be created
* - an address where a contract lived, but was destroyed
* ====
*/
function isContract(address account) internal view returns (bool) {
// This method relies in extcodesize, which returns 0 for contracts in
// construction, since the code is only stored at the end of the
// constructor execution.
// According to EIP-1052, 0x0 is the value returned for not-yet created accounts
// and 0xc5d2460186f7233c927e7db2dcc703c0e500b653ca82273b7bfad8045d85a470 is returned
// for accounts without code, i.e. `keccak256('')`

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