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What happens if one sends contract transactions to non-contract address (Geth account)? E.g. one writes the transaction to call contract function, but the destination address is geth account?
There kind of transactions doesn't seem to cause out of gas. The transaction goes silently through. However is there a way to detect such a condition?
If sufficient gas is provided, the transaction will be included in a block.
There is no way to detect the condition: it's like sending Ether to a wrong address.
Sending Ether to a wrong address is a transaction where a snippet of it looks like:
{to:'...', value:'...'} (transaction with value and no data)
The case your describing looks like:
{to:'...', data:'...'} (transaction with data and no value)
You can have combinations of a transaction that has both data and value.
If the to account is a contract (it has code), then there are these cases:
to: the function executesto: the fallback function is execution
