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c45b7c4 refactor: introduce testutil.h (deduplicate `random_fe_`, `ge_equals_` helpers) (Sebastian Falbesoner)
dc55141 tests: simplify `random_fe_non_zero` (remove loop limit and unneeded normalize) (Sebastian Falbesoner)
Pull request description:
`random_fe_non_zero` contains a loop iteration limit that ensures that we abort if `random_fe` ever yielded zero more than ten times in a row. This construct was first introduced in PR #19 (commit 09ca4f3) for random non-square field elements and was later refactored into the non-zero helper in PR #25 (commit 6d6102f). The copy-over to the exhaustive tests happened recently in PR #1118 (commit 0f86420).
This case seems to be practically irrelevant and I'd argue for keeping things simple and removing it (which was already suggested in bitcoin-core/secp256k1#1118 (comment)); if there's really a worry that the test's random generator is heavily biased towards certain values or value ranges then there should consequently be checks at other places too (e.g. directly in `random_fe` for 256-bit values that repeatedly overflow, i.e. >= p).
Also, the _fe_normalize call is not needed and can be removed, as the result of `random_fe` is already normalized.
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ACK `c45b7c4` (reviewed the changes and tests for both the commits passed locally).
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