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EVM stack typo (section 3.7)

Open gichiba opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

In section 3.7, The Ethereum Virtual Machine, the beigepaper states

The [EVM] memory stack has a maximum size of 1024-bits.

The yellow paper does not mention a unit, and the idea that the EVM stack is bound by literal bits doesn't make a lot of sense.

Rather, the EVM has a stack in which each item is a 256-bit word, and there may be a maximum of 1024 items in the stack.

Here's an additional source: https://www.ethervm.io/#stack

gichiba avatar Jul 22 '20 08:07 gichiba