This is a null merge of the InnoDB changesets which get to trunk
by manual porting and committing into mysql-trunk-innodb and then
merging into mysql-trunk-bugfixing.

the precursor patch for Bug#52044.
When passing the TABLE instance for invalidation to the
query cache, we didn't always have a valid share
(in case of error).
Make sure we invalidate the table using TABLE_LIST, not
TABLE, object.

Problem: The original patch didn't compile on debug_werror
due to wrong format in printf("%d") for size_t variables.

Fix: Adding cast to (int).

/*![:version:] Query Code */, where [:version:] is a sequence of 5 
digits representing the mysql server version(e.g /*!50200 ... */),
is a special comment that the query in it can be executed on those 
servers whose versions are larger than the version appearing in the 
comment. It leads to a security issue when slave's version is larger 
than master's. A malicious user can improve his privileges on slaves. 
Because slave SQL thread is running with SUPER privileges, so it can
execute queries that he/she does not have privileges on master.

This bug is fixed with the logic below: 
- To replace '!' with ' ' in the magic comments which are not applied on
  master. So they become common comments and will not be applied on slave.

- Example:
  'INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1) /*!10000, (2)*/ /*!99999 ,(3)*/
  will be binlogged as
  'INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1) /*!10000, (2)*/ /* 99999 ,(3)*/

            DELETE statement

Single-table delete ordered by a field that has a hash-type index
may cause an assertion failure or a crash.

An optimization added by the fix for the bug 36569 forced the
optimizer to use ORDER BY-compatible indices when applicable.

However, the existence of unsorted indices (HASH index algorithm
for some engines such as MEMORY/HEAP, NDB) was ignored.

The test_if_order_by_key function has been modified to skip
unsorted indices.

The failure was introduced by a precursor patch for the
fix for Bug#52044.

When opening tables for GRANT statement
to check that subject columns exist,
mysql_table_grant() would try to lock the
tables, and thus start a transaction.
This was unnecessary and lead to an assert.

to be more descriptive.

to mysql-5.1-innodb plugin.

Workaround a interface problem with the atomic macros that was
causing warnings. The correct type is retrieved using typeof if
compiling with GCC.

Remove dead and unused code.
Update to reflect the code review requests.

This patch also fixes Bug#55452 "SET PASSWORD is
replicated twice in RBR mode".

The goal of this patch is to remove the release of 
metadata locks from close_thread_tables().
This is necessary to not mistakenly release
the locks in the course of a multi-step
operation that involves multiple close_thread_tables()
or close_tables_for_reopen().

On the same token, move statement commit outside 
close_thread_tables().

Other cleanups:
Cleanup COM_FIELD_LIST.
Don't call close_thread_tables() in COM_SHUTDOWN -- there
are no open tables there that can be closed (we leave
the locked tables mode in THD destructor, and this
close_thread_tables() won't leave it anyway).

Make open_and_lock_tables() and open_and_lock_tables_derived()
call close_thread_tables() upon failure.
Remove the calls to close_thread_tables() that are now
unnecessary.

Simplify the back off condition in Open_table_context.

Streamline metadata lock handling in LOCK TABLES 
implementation.

Add asserts to ensure correct life cycle of 
statement transaction in a session.

Remove a piece of dead code that has also become redundant
after the fix for Bug 37521.

Remove ASM for MC68000 and Vax.

Remove 32-bit SPARC specific code.

into actual tree. No conflicts.

The problem was that the optimize method of the ARCHIVE storage
engine was not preserving the FRM embedded in the ARZ file when
rewriting the ARZ file for optimization. The ARCHIVE engine stores
the FRM in the ARZ file so it can be transferred from machine to
machine without also copying the FRM -- the engine restores the
embedded FRM during discovery.

The solution is to copy over the FRM when rewriting the ARZ file.
In addition, some initial error checking is performed to ensure
garbage is not copied over.

rb://408 approved by Sunny Bains

table copy".

This patch only adds test case as the bug itself was addressed 
by Ramil's fix for bug 50946 "fast index creation still seems
to copy the table".

Problem: The functions my_like_range_xxx() returned
badly formed maximum strings for Asian character sets,
which made problems for storage engines.

Fix: 
- Removed a number my_like_range_xxx() implementations,
  which were in fact dumplicate code pieces.
- Using generic my_like_range_mb() instead.
- Setting max_sort_char member properly for Asian character sets
- Adding unittest/strings/strings-t.c, 
  to test that my_like_range_xxx() return well-formed 
  min and max strings.

Notes:

- No additional tests in mysql/t/ available.
  Old tests cover the affected code well enough.