consensus, core/*, params: metropolis preparation refactor

This commit is a preparation for the upcoming metropolis hardfork. It
prepares the state, core and vm packages such that integration with
metropolis becomes less of a hassle.

* Difficulty calculation requires header instead of individual
  parameters
* statedb.StartRecord renamed to statedb.Prepare and added Finalise
  method required by metropolis, which removes unwanted accounts from
  the state (i.e. selfdestruct)
* State keeps record of destructed objects (in addition to dirty
  objects)
* core/vm pre-compiles may now return errors
* core/vm pre-compiles gas check now take the full byte slice as argument
  instead of just the size
* core/vm now keeps several hard-fork instruction tables instead of a
  single instruction table and removes the need for hard-fork checks in
  the instructions
* core/vm contains a empty restruction function which is added in
  preparation of metropolis write-only mode operations
* Adds the bn256 curve
* Adds and sets the metropolis chain config block parameters (2^64-1)

core/state_processor.go

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ func (p *StateProcessor) Process(block *types.Block, statedb *state.StateDB, cfg
 	}
 	// Iterate over and process the individual transactions
 	for i, tx := range block.Transactions() {
-		statedb.StartRecord(tx.Hash(), block.Hash(), i)
+		statedb.Prepare(tx.Hash(), block.Hash(), i)
 		receipt, _, err := ApplyTransaction(p.config, p.bc, nil, gp, statedb, header, tx, totalUsedGas, cfg)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, nil, nil, err
@@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ func ApplyTransaction(config *params.ChainConfig, bc *BlockChain, author *common
 	usedGas.Add(usedGas, gas)
 	// Create a new receipt for the transaction, storing the intermediate root and gas used by the tx
 	// based on the eip phase, we're passing wether the root touch-delete accounts.
-	receipt := types.NewReceipt(statedb.IntermediateRoot(config.IsEIP158(header.Number)).Bytes(), usedGas)
+	root := statedb.IntermediateRoot(config.IsEIP158(header.Number))
+	receipt := types.NewReceipt(root.Bytes(), usedGas)
 	receipt.TxHash = tx.Hash()
 	receipt.GasUsed = new(big.Int).Set(gas)
 	// if the transaction created a contract, store the creation address in the receipt.