storage engines do not set the unused null bits (i.e., the
filler bits and the X bit) correctly. Also adding some casts
to debug printouts to eliminate compiler warnings.

Post-merge fixes. Setting write bit before calling Field::store() since the function asserts that
the write bit has been set.

into  kindahl-laptop.dnsalias.net:/home/bkroot/mysql-5.1-rpl

into  kindahl-laptop.dnsalias.net:/home/bk/b29549-mysql-5.1-target-5.1.22

Refactoring code to add parameter to pack() and unpack() functions with
purpose of indicating if data should be packed in little-endian or
native order. Using new functions to always pack data for binary log
in little-endian order. The purpose of this refactoring is to allow
proper implementation of endian-agnostic pack() and unpack() functions.

Eliminating several versions of virtual pack() and unpack() functions
in favor for one single virtual function which is overridden in
subclasses.

Implementing pack() and unpack() functions for some field types that
packed data in native format regardless of the value of the
st_table_share::db_low_byte_first flag.

The field types that were packed in native format regardless are:
Field_real, Field_decimal, Field_tiny, Field_short, Field_medium,
Field_long, Field_longlong, and Field_blob.

Before the patch, row-based logging wrote the rows incorrectly on
big-endian machines where the storage engine defined its own
low_byte_first() to be FALSE on big-endian machines (the default
is TRUE), while little-endian machines wrote the fields in correct
order. The only known storage engine that does this is NDB. In effect,
this means that row-based replication from or to a big-endian
machine where the table was using NDB as storage engine failed if the
other engine was either non-NDB or on a little-endian machine.

With this patch, row-based logging is now always done in little-endian
order, while ORDER BY uses the native order if the storage engine
defines low_byte_first() to return FALSE for big-endian machines.

In addition, the max_data_length() function available in Field_blob
was generalized to the entire Field hierarchy to give the maximum
number of bytes that Field::pack() will write.

Problem: rpl_stm_mystery22 is unstable.

Reason: At one place, the test case *should* wait until the SQL thread on the
slave receives an error, but instead it waits until the SQL thread stops. The
SQL thread may stop before the error flag is set, so that when the test case
continues to execute, the error flag is not set.

Fix: Introduce the subroutine mysql-test/include/wait_for_slave_sql_error.inc,
which waits until there is an error in the sql thread of the slave.

Re-commit: fixed one logical error and two smaller things noted by Mats.

into  koti.dsl.inet.fi:/home/elkin/MySQL/TEAM/5.1-merge

Fix: ignore BOM marker in the first line.

into  koti.dsl.inet.fi:/home/elkin/MySQL/TEAM/FIXES/5.0/bug26000_show_slave_status_when_no_active_mi

into  koti.dsl.inet.fi:/home/elkin/MySQL/TEAM/FIXES/5.0/bug26000_show_slave_status_when_no_active_mi

Problem: one thread could read uninitialized memory from (the stack of) another
thread.
Fix: swapped order of initializing the memory and making it available to the
other thread.
Fix: put lock around the statement that makes the memory available to the other
thread.
Fix: all fields of the struct are now initialized in the constructor, to avoid
future problems.

into  mysql.com:/home/bar/mysql-work/mysql-5.1-new-rpl

into  mysql.com:/home/bar/mysql-work/mysql-5.0-rpl

into  mysql.com:/home/bar/mysql-work/mysql-5.1-new-rpl

Removing redundant initialization.

Problem: some valid euc-kr characters were rejected because
condition checking multi-byte tail didn't allow 
multi-byte characters having the second byte in the ranges
[0x41..0x5A]  and [0x61..0x7A].

Fix: allow these byte ranges for mb tails

into  mysql.com:/nfsdisk1/lars/MERGE/mysql-5.1-merge

into  mysql.com:/nfsdisk1/lars/MERGE/mysql-5.0-merge

into  mysql.com:/nfsdisk1/lars/MERGE/mysql-5.1-merge

into  mysql.com:/nfsdisk1/lars/MERGE/mysql-5.0-merge

into  mysql.com:/nfsdisk1/lars/MERGE/mysql-4.1-merge

active_mi has been reset (shutdown) at the time of quering with 
SHOW SLAVE STATUS so that 
at handling of SHOW an attempt to read its members segfaults.

Fixed with checking the value of active_mi before to call show_master_info()
Merely send_ok() is invoked when active_mi does not exist.
A test can not be easiely written.

Notice, there are more analogical cases in the code which require a similar
treatment (to be reported as a bug separately). 

into  pippilotta.erinye.com:/shared/home/df/mysql/build/mysql-5.1-build

into  pippilotta.erinye.com:/shared/home/df/mysql/build/mysql-5.1-build

into  pippilotta.erinye.com:/shared/home/df/mysql/build/mysql-5.0-build

into  production.mysql.com:/usersnfs/jperkin/bk/build-5.1

into  kindahl-laptop.dnsalias.net:/home/bk/b31076-mysql-5.1-rpl

Second patch to initailize more uninitialized variables.

cmake list are auto-generated and thus still required.  Correct fix
not yet known.

in following tests.

into  kindahl-laptop.dnsalias.net:/home/bk/b31076-mysql-5.1-rpl

Row-based replication crashes when replicating from pre-5.1.22 to 5.1.22
due to an uninitialized variable.

into  mysql.com:/home/gluh/MySQL/Merge/5.1-opt

into  mysql.com:/home/gluh/MySQL/Merge/5.1-opt