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Informational 15 Bitcoin

Use CompactSize instead of VarInt

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Tobin C. Harding

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Use CompactSize instead of VarInt

The term for a variable size encoded integer should be compact size.
We recently removed the `VarInt` type but a few identifiers and docs
still mention it.

ref: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/114584/what-is-the-different-between-compactsize-and-varint-encoding

Fix: #4784
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a simple renaming cleanup. It replaces the old term 'VarInt' with 'CompactSize' in comments, variable names, error variants, and test strings. No behavior of the code changes, and no security issue is introduced or fixed.

Recommended action

No security action needed. This is a normal refactoring commit.

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Why this scored 15/100

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Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
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