diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index dfe0770424..0269fab9cb 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # Auto detect text files and perform LF normalization
 * text=auto
+*.sol linguist-language=Solidity
diff --git a/core/state/database.go b/core/state/database.go
index 36926ec69d..c1b630991c 100644
--- a/core/state/database.go
+++ b/core/state/database.go
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import (
 	lru "github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru"
 )
 
-// Trie cache generation limit after which to evic trie nodes from memory.
+// Trie cache generation limit after which to evict trie nodes from memory.
 var MaxTrieCacheGen = uint16(120)
 
 const (
@@ -151,9 +151,6 @@ func (db *cachingDB) ContractCodeSize(addrHash, codeHash common.Hash) (int, erro
 		return cached.(int), nil
 	}
 	code, err := db.ContractCode(addrHash, codeHash)
-	if err == nil {
-		db.codeSizeCache.Add(codeHash, len(code))
-	}
 	return len(code), err
 }
 
diff --git a/crypto/secp256k1/curve.go b/crypto/secp256k1/curve.go
index df80481857..f51be5e353 100644
--- a/crypto/secp256k1/curve.go
+++ b/crypto/secp256k1/curve.go
@@ -290,11 +290,11 @@ func init() {
 	// See SEC 2 section 2.7.1
 	// curve parameters taken from:
 	// http://www.secg.org/collateral/sec2_final.pdf
-	theCurve.P, _ = new(big.Int).SetString("FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEFFFFFC2F", 16)
-	theCurve.N, _ = new(big.Int).SetString("FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364141", 16)
-	theCurve.B, _ = new(big.Int).SetString("0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000007", 16)
-	theCurve.Gx, _ = new(big.Int).SetString("79BE667EF9DCBBAC55A06295CE870B07029BFCDB2DCE28D959F2815B16F81798", 16)
-	theCurve.Gy, _ = new(big.Int).SetString("483ADA7726A3C4655DA4FBFC0E1108A8FD17B448A68554199C47D08FFB10D4B8", 16)
+	theCurve.P = math.MustParseBig256("0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEFFFFFC2F")
+	theCurve.N = math.MustParseBig256("0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364141")
+	theCurve.B = math.MustParseBig256("0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000007")
+	theCurve.Gx = math.MustParseBig256("0x79BE667EF9DCBBAC55A06295CE870B07029BFCDB2DCE28D959F2815B16F81798")
+	theCurve.Gy = math.MustParseBig256("0x483ADA7726A3C4655DA4FBFC0E1108A8FD17B448A68554199C47D08FFB10D4B8")
 	theCurve.BitSize = 256
 }