Handle all breaking changes for the patch

The major change to integrate the patch has been:

* Updating the arguments for `rlp.EncodeToBytes`. This function accepts interfaces, but since the last update, it is better to pass in a pointer to the function.
* From the Ethereum Release Notes: "
Compatibility note about `core/types`: For optimization purposes, `types.Header` and other types in this package now implement the `rlp.Encoder` interface. This change can cause incompatibilities because the new method is implemented with pointer receiver. Attempting to RLP-encode unadressable (i.e. non-pointer) values of type `Header` does not work anymore and will result in an error."
* Instead of just updating all the headers. I have updated all parameters for the `rlp.EncodeToBytes` to be pointers instead of values.

__Please take a close look at the updates__. The functions won't fail if a non-pointer is passed (in most cases), but we could be unexpected behaviors.

Author: Abdul Rabbani

.gitignore

@@ -57,3 +57,5 @@ related-repositories/ipld-eth-db/**
 statediff/indexer/database/sql/statediffing_test_file.sql
 statediff/statediffing_test_file.sql
 statediff/known_gaps.sql
+related-repositories/foundry-test/
+related-repositories/ipld-eth-db/

statediff/builder.go

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ import (
 
 var (
 	nullHashBytes     = common.Hex2Bytes("0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000")
-	emptyNode, _      = rlp.EncodeToBytes([]byte{})
+	emptyNode, _      = rlp.EncodeToBytes(&[]byte{})
 	emptyContractRoot = crypto.Keccak256Hash(emptyNode)
 	nullCodeHash      = crypto.Keccak256Hash([]byte{}).Bytes()
 )