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The only factor to distinguish coin base transactions

In bitcoin source code here is a function to check if the given transaction is coin base or not. Here is the function: bool IsCoinBase() const { return (vin.size() == 1 && vin[0].prevout.IsNull()); } My question is that does it really need to check if vin.size() is equal to 1? Isn’t vin[0].prevoud.IsNull() sufficient condition for ::Listen

In bitcoin source code here is a function to check if the given transaction is coin base or not. Here is the function:

    bool IsCoinBase() const     {         return (vin.size() == 1 && vin[0].prevout.IsNull());     }

My question is that does it really need to check if vin.size() is equal to 1? Isn’t vin[0].prevoud.IsNull() sufficient condition for a transaction to be coin base? Is there any situation that the later condition is true but we have more than one input?

The only reason I can guess is to avoid run-time error when vin is empty (So there is no vin[0]).

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