Fix status bar not displaying Alerts.

[novacoin.git] / src / bignum.h

diff --git a/src/bignum.h b/src/bignum.h
index 5b4c78e..1a2406b 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bignum.h
+++ b/src/bignum.h
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Satoshi Nakamoto
+// Copyright (c) 2011 The Bitcoin developers
 // Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying
 // file license.txt or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 #ifndef BITCOIN_BIGNUM_H
@@ -228,10 +229,13 @@ public:
     {
         std::vector<unsigned char> vch2(vch.size() + 4);
         unsigned int nSize = vch.size();
+        // BIGNUM's byte stream format expects 4 bytes of
+        // big endian size data info at the front
         vch2[0] = (nSize >> 24) & 0xff;
         vch2[1] = (nSize >> 16) & 0xff;
         vch2[2] = (nSize >> 8) & 0xff;
         vch2[3] = (nSize >> 0) & 0xff;
+        // swap data to big endian
         reverse_copy(vch.begin(), vch.end(), vch2.begin() + 4);
         BN_mpi2bn(&vch2[0], vch2.size(), this);
     }