Adds to the devel reference page detailed documentation on the following
messages: block, getblocks, getdata, getheaders, headers, inv, mempool,
merkleblock, notfound, and tx.
Adds to the devel examples page an example of requesting and parsing a
merkleblock message.
Adds to the devel docs overview pages links to the above two new
P2P sections.
Tweaks the autocrossref plugin ignore pattern to not crossref in the
middle of a GIF image name; this allows the inclusion of animated GIFs.
* Replace current description of the block header with a better
description.
* Describe the various version numbers.
* Describe how the merkle root is constructed.
* Describe how nBits is parsed and how to correctly create it to
avoid negative values.
* Describe the serialized block format used to calculate max block size.
* Replaced text justification with left-align (raggedright) for all text
in dev docs.
* Removed previous manual left-align in RPC byte order table
* Changed placement of See Below text partly based on a suggestion by
@saivann (thanks!)
* Normalized capitialization of special structures (e.g. s/TxIn/txIn/)
to be consistent with some other parts of the docs. (I don't think
we're fully consistent on this in all parts of the docs. I'll put a
rule in the style guide today and then we can make changes on the next
global proofread.)
* Fixed missing period found by @saivann (thanks!) and a related missing
preposition.
Provides a detailed description of the transaction format, replacing an
example hexdump taken from the wiki.
I'm putting this in the transaction section as the format is necessary
for the creation of txids, which are used as merkle leaves (so are
covered by consensus rules). However, this is also the format used by
several P2P network messages to transmit transactions, so I'll be
linking back to it from there as I document those messages.
