{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/993","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/993/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/993/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/993/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/993","id":76783018,"number":993,"title":"Should the CALL opcode with empty address create a new contract?","user":{"login":"ebuchman","id":2300911,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2300911?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman","html_url":"https://github.com/ebuchman","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-05-15T16:40:05Z","updated_at":"2015-05-15T17:27:16Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I have not found a definite answer to this question in the yellow paper, and from inspection of the code it appears that a CALL to an empty address will create a new account for the price of a call (rather than the price of a create), but with no code. Is this expected behaviour? Can someone clarify? Would be nice to add this to https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Subtleties"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/comments/102463823","html_url":"https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/993#issuecomment-102463823","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/993","id":102463823,"user":{"login":"ebuchman","id":2300911,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2300911?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman","html_url":"https://github.com/ebuchman","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebuchman/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-15T17:27:16Z","updated_at":"2015-05-15T17:27:16Z","body":"Ah right. It would be an all zeros address, so that's actually a call to the zero address. So it'll send it the value and I guess do nothing else. Is anything regarding the 0-address defined? Presumably a normal tx to the 0-address isn't a contract creation either, and it doesn't seem to be a native contract."}}