From 4b268872df70ca5803ce6c2d6284338aa44db8ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miron Cuperman (devrandom)" <miron@google.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:32:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make decodeCompactBits public, resolves issue 99.

---
 src/com/google/bitcoin/core/Utils.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/com/google/bitcoin/core/Utils.java b/src/com/google/bitcoin/core/Utils.java
index 7af49acb..67a696fa 100644
--- a/src/com/google/bitcoin/core/Utils.java
+++ b/src/com/google/bitcoin/core/Utils.java
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ public class Utils {
 
     // The representation of nBits uses another home-brew encoding, as a way to represent a large
     // hash value in only 32 bits.
-    static BigInteger decodeCompactBits(long compact) {
+    public static BigInteger decodeCompactBits(long compact) {
         int size = ((int) (compact >> 24)) & 0xFF;
         byte[] bytes = new byte[4 + size];
         bytes[3] = (byte) size;