Precompiled contracts... about eevm

[eddyashton]

We don't currently implement the precompiled contracts at addresses 1 to 8, as we didn't need them. I'll update the README to make note of this.

If you run bytecode that tries to call one of these contracts, it will throw a notImplemented Exception.

[b00f]

Do you have any plan to add pre-compiled contracts or at least providing an option to call pre-compiled contracts from evm (call opcode)?

[eddyashton]

This isn't a high priority for us, but we'd be happy to take a PR. Given implementations of the precompiled contracts, it should be a small change to the call opcode handler to forward a call to a precompiled contract rather than throwing an error.

[saurik]

We don't currently implement the precompiled contracts at addresses 1 to 8, as we didn't need them.

Is there somewhere I can read about the intended use cases for this VM? It just seems strange to me that it is targeting a multi-year old version of the EVM spec (Homestead) and doesn't intend to provide support for basic functionality like ecrecover, so I'm probably misunderstanding what it was made for.