Does SUICIDE also free up stored hashes? [duplicate]

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• Contract's state after a Selfdestruct 3 answers

Here's a contract:

pragma solidity ^0.4.19;

contract StoreAndFree {
    mapping(int=>int) myStore;
    function StoreAndFree() public {
        for (int i=1; i<100; i++) {
            myStore[i] = i;
        }
    }

    function kill() external {
        selfdestruct(msg.sender);
    }
}

When you kill it, what happens to the stored values? Are they still stored? Should you reset them to zero? Do you get gas back for resetting them to zero?

Answer 1

The opcode was officially renamed to SELFDESTRUCT in EIP-6. SELFDESTRUCT, however, wont give you the refund for the rest of the storage. Since storage is actually implemented as a hashmap, the EVM has no way of statically knowing, without being told, which storage slots belong to a contract. If you want the gas refund of resetting storage slots, you'll have to do it manually before calling SELFDESTRUCT.

Note: The max gas refund is half of what you spend, so zeroing a lot of storage slots is likely an altruistic behavior unless it's all happening in a very expensive transaction.