ugly fix for 'quadita2' ia64 icc -O1

into mysql.com:/home/bk/b5551-4.1-v4

The idea of the fix is that the administrative statements 
OPTIMIZE TABLE, REPAIR TABLE and ANALYZE TABLE should not 
generate binlog errors if there is no errors on the master.

  Bug #6045: Binary Comparison regression in MySQL 4.1
  Binary searches didn't use a case insensitive index, now they do.

http://lists.mysql.com/internals/18149

into mysql.com:/home/my/mysql-4.1

into poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1

    remove compiler warning
    patch for my_vsnprintf not dully implemented
    patch for platfroms that return -1 on snprintf overflow
    compile fix for hpux

Added protocol::flush() for easier embedded-server code
Increase block allocation variables a bit as they where a bit too small for MySQL 4.1
Added option --silent to client_test

into build.mysql.com:/users/rburnett/mysql-4.1-current

into mysql.com:/home/my/mysql-4.1

into mysql.com:/M41/mysql-4.1

into mysql.com:/space/pekka/ndb/version/my41

into mysql.com:/home/jonas/src/mysql-4.1

Fix so that signed/unsigned char does not matter in comparision

into mysql.com:/usr/home/bar/mysql-4.1

  Allow mixing of different character sets for more SQL functions.
item_func.h:
  Allow mixing of different character sets for more SQL functions..

into hundin.mysql.fi:/home/heikki/mysql-4.1

  Correct English grammar

into gw.mysql.r18.ru:/usr/home/ram/work/4.1.b6309

       bug #6380: mysqlcheck --help prints wrong --debug msg for non-debug version).

  Raise fatal semaphore wait timeout to 2 hours when we are printing the InnoDB table monitor output

  Bug #6223 Japanese half-width kana characters get truncated. Bytes 0xA1..0xDF were not treated as a single byte sequence in a mistake.

into poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-ndb

into poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1

    added libNDBT.a
   removed printout
    fixed error that ndb_show_tables required table name

having approval for it since 4.1.4, I also have some assurance that
very few people actually used this: to enable these calls a user
had to #define HAVE_DEPRECATED_411_API and recompile the client library.

into mysql.com:/space/pekka/ndb/version/my41

into poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-ndb

into poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1

  added flag on sun forte, -instances=static
  (check is only made for "non-gcc", hopefully enough)