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Summary

EIP-8037 needs a two-dimensional gas ledger before state creation can be charged separately. This is T13 of the Amsterdam umbrella (#2730): only the inert first half — the type change — ported from geth ethereum#34691. One commit (b6ea56334c74) on dev-upgrade (4001230017).

 core/vm/
 ├── gascosts.go            # new: GasCosts{RegularGas, StateGas}, Sum(), String()
 ├── contract.go            # Contract.Gas          uint64 → GasCosts
 ├── gas_table.go           # gasFunc(...) (uint64, error) → (GasCosts, error)
 ├── operations_acl.go      # the call variants and their intrinsic halves
 ├── evm.go                 # the call/create gas handoff
 ├── instructions.go        # GAS, CREATE/CREATE2 gas handoff
 ├── interpreter.go         # charge and trace the dynamic cost
 └── jump_table.go

interpreter loop
  cost        = operation.constantGas
  dynamicCost = operation.dynamicGas(...)        # now GasCosts
  charge        contract.Gas.RegularGas -= dynamicCost.RegularGas
  trace         cost += dynamicCost.RegularGas

Every dynamic gas function wraps its result in GasCosts{RegularGas: …}; UseGas, RefundGas, the GAS opcode, the call/create handoff, the call variants and the interpreter loop read and charge RegularGas only. StateGas is zero on every path, so with Amsterdam inactive this commit is consensus-neutral: no price, receipt, tracer output or state root moves. T14's patch (ethereum#34712) was written against this shape, so the remaining EIP-8037 pieces can land as upstream diffs instead of local rewrites.

Not a verbatim patch. The upstream diff does not apply here:

• No verkle / EIP-4762 subtree exists in this tree (git grep IsEIP4762 finds nothing), so operations_verkle.go, the three EIP-4762 hunks in eips.go, the initNewContract hunk in evm.go and the isEIP4762 hunk in interpreter.go are skipped.
• T12 (refactor(core/vm): rework gas measurement for call variants #33648 #2995, e4caf93f9c) removed the two !IsEIP4762 guards, rewrote the call-variant comments, and added a 927-line gas_table_test.go that upstream never saw (upstream's is 186 lines and unmodified by the patch). jump_table_test.go also reads Contract.Gas directly. Those local tests are adapted by unwrapping the returned vector; not one expected value changes.
• core/vm/gascosts.go keeps the upstream LGPL header verbatim; the four declaration comment lines (GasCosts denotes…, Sum returns…, String returns…) are dropped under this tree's lean-comments policy.

Out of scope, and unchanged here: state-gas charging itself (GasBudget, state creation gas, the runtime recipient charge — T14/T16/T18), core/state_transition.go, core/txpool, params, dependencies and the Amsterdam activation. Upstream's later gascosts.go work (ethereum#34712, ethereum#34946,
ethereum#33601, ethereum#35203, ethereum#35173, ethereum#35279, ethereum#35318, ethereum#35457, ethereum#35633, ethereum#35646, ethereum#36089) is not folded in. ethereum#33648 (T12 / #2995) is an ancestor of 633385516; the only upstream core/vm commits in between are ethereum#33645 (EIP-7708, landed here as T4 / #2842) and ethereum#34688 (one line in core/vm/interface.go, which this patch does not touch), so the title carries only the PR actually ported.

Evidence

• Before: the upstream diff, minus operations_verkle.go, applied to dev-upgrade (4001230017) → git apply --check --verbose checks 11 files, 8 report patch does not apply, 3 apply.

• After: the added lines of gas_table.go and operations_acl.go are identical to the upstream patch's added lines, 151/151 after sorting (101 + 50). No bare Contract.Gas read survives in core/vm (git grep -P '\b(contract|Contract|c)\.Gas(?!\.RegularGas)' → empty), and go build ./... is clean.

• New tests: TestGasCostsStateGasIsZero drives 24 gas functions — memory, SSTORE (legacy/2200/2929), SLOAD, EXTCODECOPY, the 2929 account check, LOG, KECCAK256, CREATE/CREATE2/3860, EXP, the four call intrinsics, the three call-variant wrappers (plain, 2929, 7702) and both selfdestructs — and asserts StateGas == 0 plus Sum() == RegularGas. TestGasCostsSumAndString pins Sum/String.

• go test ./core/vm/ ./core/vm/runtime/ ./eth/tracers/js/ -count=1 → all ok; every pre-existing expected gas value is unchanged.

• Mutation testing (mandatory for this factory-style refactor), whole core/vm package through go test -overlay:

  Mutant	Change	Result
  M1	memoryCopierGas charges StateGas	KILLED — TestOpMCopy
  M2	legacy gasSStore charges StateGas	KILLED — TestGasCostsStateGasIsZero/sstore_legacy
  M3	interpreter traces dynamicCost.StateGas	KILLED — TestCallVariantGasOpcodeCost
  M4	interpreter deducts dynamicCost.StateGas	KILLED — TestEIP2200, TestCreateGas
  M5	UseGas compares c.Gas.StateGas	KILLED — TestCreateGas, TestCallVariantGasBinding/call,_eip-2929
  M6	gasCallEIP2929 bound to gasCallCodeIntrinsic	KILLED — TestCallVariantGasBinding/call,_eip-2929, TestCallVariantGasEarlyOut
  M7	full gasCall in the 7702 intrinsic slot	KILLED — TestCallVariantGasEIP7702/call,_cold_delegation
  M8	gasDelegateCallEIP7702 bound to gasStaticCallIntrinsic	SURVIVED — the two intrinsics are byte-identical, an equivalence class; M6 proves the harness has teeth when they differ

• Full chain on b6ea56334c74 in a detached /tmp worktree per branch-workflow: make all → make generate (No stale files) → make tidy (No untidy module files) → tree-clean gate → make lint (0 issues.) → go vet ./... → make test, all rc=0. Log: /tmp/verify-logs/amsterdam-eip8037-gasvector-b6ea56334c-QfiYXL.log.

• CI on the same head: lint, static, race-scope and every race shard pass (run 43332193965).

Merge Danger

Door: two-way

One commit, type-only, StateGas pinned to zero: no wire format, no persisted state, no consensus behaviour and no price changes. Reverting it restores uint64 cleanly.

Blast Radius: 13 files, all in core/vm plus one JS tracer test helper

Contract.Gas and gasFunc are exported / package-level, so an embedder that reads Contract.Gas directly needs the same .RegularGas unwrapping; all 38 lines that read it (40 occurrences) were adapted and the whole suite is green. Zero file overlap with the unmerged T10 (PR #3052) — whichever lands first only forces the other to rebase.

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Proposed changes

Turn gas into a two-dimensional vector ahead of EIP-8037, so the state-gas patches can be ported as upstream diffs. See the Summary above.

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• perf: A code change that improves performance
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• test: Adding missing tests or correcting existing tests

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• Consensus
• Account
• Network
• Geth
• Smart Contract
• External components
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Checklist

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• This PR has sufficient test coverage (unit/integration test) OR I have provided reason in the PR description for not having test coverage
• Tested on a private network from the genesis block and monitored the chain operating correctly for multiple epochs.
• Provide an end-to-end test plan in the PR description on how to manually test it on the devnet/testnet.
• Tested the backwards compatibility.
• Tested with XDC nodes running this version co-exist with those running the previous version.
• Relevant documentation has been updated as part of this PR
• N/A

Unchecked items, with reasons:

• Private network / mixed-version nodes: the change is a compile-time type refactor with StateGas fixed at zero and Amsterdam unscheduled on every production network, so there is no new runtime path a live network could exercise. Fork-gated behaviour arrives with T14–T18 and will need a devnet/testnet run then.
• E2E plan for when the fork is live: on a devnet with AmsterdamBlock at 0, replay plain CALL, CALL with value to an empty account, SSTORE cold/warm, CREATE2, EIP-7702 delegation and SELFDESTRUCT against the same chain on the parent commit, then diff receipts, debug_traceTransaction structLogs and state roots. For this PR the equivalent check is make test plus go test ./core/vm/ ./core/vm/runtime/ ./eth/tracers/js/: gas values must be byte-for-byte unchanged.
• Backwards compatibility: ticked — every Contract.Gas read/write in the tree was adapted, go build ./... passes, and all pre-existing gas expectations hold.
• Documentation: no user-facing change; the staged-port rule lives in docs/adr/0005-port-amsterdam-eips-standalone.md, and implement the Amsterdam EVM version #2730's T13 row and section already point at this PR.
• N/A: this PR does touch consensus-adjacent EVM code and does add tests.

Ref: ethereum#34691

Close #2764

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Walkthrough

Changes

The VM now represents gas costs with GasCosts, containing regular and state gas fields. Gas calculators return this structure, while execution, contract calls, and tracing use its RegularGas component.

VM gas-cost migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
GasCosts and contract gas state core/vm/gascosts.go, core/vm/contract.go, core/vm/gascosts_test.go	GasCosts provides regular and state gas fields, a sum method, and a string representation. Contract stores this type and applies gas use and refunds to RegularGas.
Structured gas-calculator results core/vm/jump_table.go, core/vm/gas_table.go, core/vm/operations_acl.go, core/vm/gas_table_test.go	Gas calculators return GasCosts, with the existing charges in RegularGas. Tests read the structured results and check gas totals, errors, and cold-access behavior.
Regular-gas execution and returns core/vm/interpreter.go, core/vm/instructions.go, core/vm/evm.go, core/vm/*_test.go, eth/tracers/js/tracer_test.go	The interpreter, opcode handlers, EVM call methods, and tracer test use RegularGas for gas checks, deductions, and returned values.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor

Possibly related issues

• implement the Amsterdam EVM version #2730 — The umbrella issue names this PR as a stage in its EIP-8037 porting plan.

Possibly related PRs

• XinFinOrg/XDPoSChain#2995 — Both PRs modify CALL-family gas calculators and related tests.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to b6ea5

This is an inert type refactor that keeps gas accounting on the regular-gas component, so behavior should not change. No merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		Linked issue #2764 requests full EIP-8037 multidimensional state-gas metering. This PR implements only the type step: Contract.Gas and gasFunc become GasCosts{RegularGas, StateGas} in core/vm, w…	Either (a) change the linkage so the PR does not close #2764 and reference it as a partial step, or (b) implement the listed requirements (GasBudget, state-transition and gas-pool two-dimensional accounting, the Amsterdam cap switches with …

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: converting gas in the core/vm package into a two-dimensional vector of regularGas and stateGas, as described in the EIP-8037 port. The changeset adds the GasCosts type…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes fall in core/vm (gascosts.go, gascosts_test.go, gas_table.go, gas_table_test.go, operations_acl.go, contract.go, evm.go, instructions.go, instructions_test.go, `interpr…
Description check		The description is thorough and follows the repository template. It fills in the Summary, the Types of changes (refactor and test), Impacted Components (Consensus and Smart Contract), and most checkli…

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title names the main change: converting gas in the core/vm package into a two-dimensional vector of regularGas and stateGas, as described in the EIP-8037 port. The changeset adds the GasCosts type and changes Contract.Gas and gasFunc to use it, so the title matches the primary change. It also references the issue and PR numbers, which is acceptable.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes fall in core/vm (gascosts.go, gascosts_test.go, gas_table.go, gas_table_test.go, operations_acl.go, contract.go, evm.go, instructions.go, instructions_test.go, interpreter.go, jump_table.go, jump_table_test.go) and the test helper eth/tracers/js/tracer_test.go. Issue #2764 lists core/vm/gascosts.go and the gas tables in scope. The eth/tracers/js change adapts an existing caller to the new Contract.Gas type. The PR description lists state transition, txpool, params, and activation changes as excluded, and the summary shows no changes to those paths.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description is thorough and follows the repository template. It fills in the Summary, the Types of changes (refactor and test), Impacted Components (Consensus and Smart Contract), and most checklist items with reasons for unchecked items. It gives a clear scope statement, mutation and verification evidence, and a merge-risk section. Two gaps remain. First, the template's 'Relevant documentation has been updated' item is unchecked, and the author says no user-facing docs change, which is an acceptable reason. Second, the 'Tested on a private network' and 'Tested with XDC nodes running this version co-exist' items are unchecked with reasons. The template's checklist does not require reasons for these, but the author gives them, so this is acceptable. The description also includes an unusual 'Ref' to a go-ethereum PR and a 'Close #2764' line that conflicts with the author's own statement that the PR is only a partial step toward that issue. That conflict should be clarified, but it does not make the description incomplete.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Linked issue #2764 requests full EIP-8037 multidimensional state-gas metering. This PR implements only the type step: Contract.Gas and gasFunc become GasCosts{RegularGas, StateGas} in core/vm, with StateGas fixed at zero. Unmet coding requirements from #2764 at the reviewed head: (1) core/vm/gascosts.go GasBudget and the running two-dimensional budget are absent; (2) core/state_transition.go still has a single gasRemaining and no skipExecutionGasCap or skipGasLimitCapCheck; (3) core/gaspool.go is not two-dimensional; (4) the EIP-7825 cap still gates on Osaka alone at core/state_transition.go, core/txpool/validation.go, miner/worker.go and eth/gasestimator/gasestimator.go; (5) core/vm/runtime/runtime.go has no Amsterdam gas clamp; (6) the system-call state budget in core/state_processor.go is not implemented. The PR description states that these items are out of scope and planned for follow-up work. The PR title and the Close #2764 line therefore claim more than the diff delivers.

Resolution

Either (a) change the linkage so the PR does not close #2764 and reference it as a partial step, or (b) implement the listed requirements (GasBudget, state-transition and gas-pool two-dimensional accounting, the Amsterdam cap switches with skipExecutionGasCap and skipGasLimitCapCheck, the runtime clamp, and the system-call state budget) in this PR before closing #2764.

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• core/vm/contract.go
• core/vm/evm.go
• core/vm/gas_table.go
• core/vm/gas_table_test.go
• core/vm/gascosts.go
• core/vm/gascosts_test.go
• core/vm/instructions.go
• core/vm/instructions_test.go
• core/vm/interpreter.go
• core/vm/jump_table.go
• core/vm/jump_table_test.go
• core/vm/operations_acl.go
• eth/tracers/js/tracer_test.go

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