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Should fail when trying to create an instance of an abstract contract (solc 0.6)

See original GitHub issue

Expected Behavior

Creating an abstract contract should fail.

Current Behavior

Returns an address for created contract but calls to that contract fail.

Sorry for not being too detailed with this issue submissions but I’m assuming it’s easy to reproduce and might even be that Solidity 0.6 features aren’t yet implemented.

Your Environment

Version used: Ganache CLI v6.9.1 (ganache-core: 2.10.2)
Version of Truffle/Remix/Other tools used: using etherlime for compilation and deployment
NodeJS Version: v10.12.0
Operating System and version (include distro if Linux): OSX Catalina

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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haltman-atcommented, Jan 3, 2022

OK, I couldn’t reproduce this with latest Truffle/Ganache. I got an error as expected:

  1) Contract: Test
       should deploy successfully (not really):
     Error: Test error: contract binary not set. Can't deploy new instance.
This contract may be abstract, not implement an abstract parent's methods completely
or not invoke an inherited contract's constructor correctly

      at Function.new (/home/sniffnoy/truffle/truffle/packages/contract/lib/contract/constructorMethods.js:48:13)
      at Context.<anonymous> (test/test.js:5:19)
      at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)

Is it OK if we close this, then?

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haltman-atcommented, Jan 3, 2022

Hm, that’s odd. That shouldn’t work. I’ll try this out later and see if I can reproduce it on latest Truffle/Ganache. Thanks!

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