* core/state/snapshot: fix data race in layer flattening

* core/state/snapshot: fix typo

This is the initial step for support of Solidity errors in contract bindings.
As of this change, errors can be decoded, but are not supported in
bindings yet.

Closes #23157

Include upper bound in binary search

This fixes a bug where gas-related fields of the TransactOpts passed
to transaction methods would be modified, skipping gas estimation for
subsequent transactions.

Co-authored-by: Yondon Fu <yondon.fu@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>

This doesn't fix all go-critic warnings, just the most serious ones.

Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>

This update adds support for some more ES6 functionality, notably
arrow functions.

* eth,rpc: allow for flag configured timeouts for eth_call

* lint: account for package-local import order

* cr: rename `rpc.calltimeout` to `rpc.evmtimeout`

This removes some code:

- The clique engine calculated the snapshot twice when verifying headers/blocks.

- The method GetBlockHashesFromHash in Header/Block/Lightchain was only used by tests. It
  is now removed from the API.
  
- The method GetTdByHash internally looked up the number before calling GetTd(hash, num).
  In many cases, callers already had the number, and used this method just because it has a
  shorter name. I have removed the method to make the API surface smaller.

* Update tests to showcase that forked blocks can still be looked up by their hash

* les/vflux/server: fix metrics

* les/vflux/server: fix metrics

* params: changed CatalystBlock to TerminalTotalDifficulty

* eth/catalyst: comment out unused code

* build: increase thread stack size when running alpine linux

* review feedback: force a stack size of 8M on all linux distribs

* fix missing extldflags

* cmd/evm: t9n: validate transaction intrinsic gas

* cmd/evm: t9n: stricter tx validation

bumped version to v0.2.9

core: fix typo in iterator.go

Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>

This prevents the console from crashing when auto-completing on
a variable or property that is null or undefined.

Fixes #23693

node.Node no longer registers any account manager backends by default,
they need to be registered explicitly.

For ethash-based tests, we actually don't need any accounts in the miner
keystore. Just set the etherbase instead to make mining work. For
clique, the signer account must be in the keystore.

The change also adds interrupt handling in stress tests.

strorage -> storage

This fixes a data race on worker.current by moving the call to StopPrefetcher
into the main loop.

The commit also contains fixes for two other races in unit tests of unrelated packages.

This ensures that all miner goroutines have exited before stopping the blockchain. 

Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>

Go 1.17.2 fixes some miscompilation issues on amd64 and a runtime issue with timers.
While the upgrade is not strictly necessary for go-ethereum right now, it is still good
to be up-to-date.

Updated ReadMe File

Limit binary search to local height