I knew the Genesis Block was hard coded, never saw- til 0.01 ALPHA main.cpp

I found this on github. Practically all the // commented in lines are what we know as the genesis block.

I knew it was "hardcoded" but I've never seen those comments in any other main.cpp Bitcoin files, even earlier ones! See below:

    // Genesis Block:
    // GetHash()      = 0x000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
    // hashMerkleRoot = 0x4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b
    // txNew.vin[0].scriptSig     = 486604799 4 0x736B6E616220726F662074756F6C69616220646E6F63657320666F206B6E697262206E6F20726F6C6C65636E61684320393030322F6E614A2F33302073656D695420656854
    // txNew.vout[0].nValue       = 5000000000
    // txNew.vout[0].scriptPubKey = 0x5F1DF16B2B704C8A578D0BBAF74D385CDE12C11EE50455F3C438EF4C3FBCF649B6DE611FEAE06279A60939E028A8D65C10B73071A6F16719274855FEB0FD8A6704 OP_CHECKSIG
    // block.nVersion = 1
    // block.nTime    = 1231006505
    // block.nBits    = 0x1d00ffff
    // block.nNonce   = 2083236893
    // CBlock(hash=000000000019d6, ver=1, hashPrevBlock=00000000000000, hashMerkleRoot=4a5e1e, nTime=1231006505, nBits=1d00ffff, nNonce=2083236893, vtx=1)
    //   CTransaction(hash=4a5e1e, ver=1, vin.size=1, vout.size=1, nLockTime=0)
    //     CTxIn(COutPoint(000000, -1), coinbase 04ffff001d0104455468652054696d65732030332f4a616e2f32303039204368616e63656c6c6f72206f6e206272696e6b206f66207365636f6e64206261696c6f757420666f722062616e6b73)
    //     CTxOut(nValue=50.00000000, scriptPubKey=0x5F1DF16B2B704C8A578D0B)
    //   vMerkleTree: 4a5e1e

    // Genesis block
    char* pszTimestamp = "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks";
    CTransaction txNew;
    txNew.vin.resize(1);
    txNew.vout.resize(1);
    txNew.vin[0].scriptSig     = CScript() << 486604799 << CBigNum(4) << vector<unsigned char>((unsigned char*)pszTimestamp, (unsigned char*)pszTimestamp + strlen(pszTimestamp));
    txNew.vout[0].nValue       = 50 * COIN;
    txNew.vout[0].scriptPubKey = CScript() << CBigNum("0x5F1DF16B2B704C8A578D0BBAF74D385CDE12C11EE50455F3C438EF4C3FBCF649B6DE611FEAE06279A60939E028A8D65C10B73071A6F16719274855FEB0FD8A6704") << OP_CHECKSIG;
    CBlock block;
    block.vtx.push_back(txNew);
    block.hashPrevBlock = 0;
    block.hashMerkleRoot = block.BuildMerkleTree();
    block.nVersion = 1;
    block.nTime    = 1231006505;
    block.nBits    = 0x1d00ffff;
    block.nNonce   = 2083236893;

        //// debug print, delete this later
        printf("%s\n", block.GetHash().ToString().c_str());
        printf("%s\n", block.hashMerkleRoot.ToString().c_str());
        printf("%s\n", hashGenesisBlock.ToString().c_str());
        txNew.vout[0].scriptPubKey.print();
        block.print();
        assert(block.hashMerkleRoot == uint256("0x4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b"));

    assert(block.GetHash() == hashGenesisBlock);

Source: https://github.com/kyuupichan/bitcoin-0.01/commit/7be8b0c93b45c3900714e2a6d743a5814bf9074b#diff-5a916c7e0e920f2ce3fe1521956bab2f1adcbd064d69cd07d930b8cc597a1010