Change the default optimization level for Sun Studio to "-O1". 
This is a workaround for a Sun Studio bug (see bug #41710 
comments for details): 
 
1. Use $GCC instead of $ac_cv_prog_gcc to check for gcc, since 
the first one is the only documented way to do it. 
 
2. Use $GXX instead of $ac_cv_prog_cxx_g to check for g++, 
since the latter is set to "yes" when the C++ compiler accepts 
"-g" which is the case for both g++ and CC. 
 
3. When building with Sun Studio, set the default values for 
CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS to "-O1", since unlike GCC, Sun Studio 
interprets "-O" as "-xO3" (see the manual pages for cc and CC). 

configure.in:
  1. Use $GCC instead of $ac_cv_prog_gcc to check for gcc, since 
  the first one is the only documented way to do it. 
   
  2. Use $GXX instead of $ac_cv_prog_cxx_g to check for g++, 
  since the latter is set to "yes" when the C++ compiler accepts 
  "-g" which is the case for both g++ and CC. 
   
  3. When building with Sun Studio, set the default values for 
  CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS to "-O1", since unlike GCC, Sun Studio 
  interprets "-O" as "-xO3" (see the manual pages for cc and CC).

Item_func_spatial_collection::val_str
        
When the concatenation function for geometry data collections
reads the binary data it was not rigorous in checking that there
is data available, leading to invalid reads and crashes.
Fixed by making checking stricter.


mysql-test/r/gis.result:
  Bug#44684: Test result
mysql-test/t/gis.test:
  Bug#44684: Test case
sql/item_geofunc.cc:
  Bug#44684: fix(es)
  - Check that there are 4 bytes available for type code.
  - Check that there is at least one point available for linestring.
  - Check that there are at least 2 points in a polygon and
    data for all the points.

This patch corrects a misstake in the test case for bug patch 43658.

There was a race in the test case when the thread id was retrieved from the processlist.
The result was that the same thread id was signalled twice and one thread id wasn't
signalled at all.

The affected platforms appears to be limited to linux.

mysql-test/r/query_cache_debug.result:
  There was a race in the test case when the thread id was retrieved from the processlist.
  The result was that the same thread id was signalled twice and one thread id wasn't
  signalled at all.
mysql-test/t/query_cache_debug.test:
  There was a race in the test case when the thread id was retrieved from the processlist.
  The result was that the same thread id was signalled twice and one thread id wasn't
  signalled at all.

with gcc 4.3.2
      
Compiling MySQL with gcc 4.3.2 and later produces a number of 
warnings, many of which are new with the recent compiler
versions.
                  
This bug will be resolved in more than one patch to limit the
size of changesets. This is the second patch, fixing more
of the warnings.

to a test file that guarantees the presence of partition code

Early patch submitted for discussion.

It is possible for more than one thread to enter the condition
in query_cache_insert(), but the condition predicate is to
signal one thread each time the cache status changes between
the following states: {NO_FLUSH_IN_PROGRESS,FLUSH_IN_PROGRESS,
TABLE_FLUSH_IN_PROGRESS}

Consider three threads THD1, THD2, THD3

   THD2: select ... => Got a writer in ::store_query
   THD3: select ... => Got a writer in ::store_query
   THD1: flush tables => qc status= FLUSH_IN_PROGRESS;
                      new writers are blocked.
   THD2: select ... => Still got a writer and enters cond in
                       query_cache_insert
   THD3: select ... => Still got a writer and enters cond in
                       query_cache_insert
   THD1: flush tables => finished and signal status change.
   THD2: select ... => Wakes up and completes the insert.
   THD3: select ... => Happily waiting for better times. Why hurry?

This patch is a refactoring of this lock system. It introduces four new methods:
   Query_cache::try_lock()
   Query_cache::lock()
   Query_cache::lock_and_suspend()
   Query_cache::unlock()

This change also deprecates wait_while_table_flush_is_in_progress(). All threads are
queued and put on a conditional wait. On each unlock the queue is signalled. This resolve
the issues with left over threads. To assure that no threads are spending unnecessary
time waiting a signal broadcast is issued every time a lock is taken before a full
cache flush.

mysql-test/r/query_cache_debug.result:
  * Added test case for bug43758
mysql-test/t/query_cache_debug.test:
  * Added test case for bug43758
sql/sql_cache.cc:
  * Replaced calls to wait_while_table_flush_is_in_progress() with
    calls to try_lock(), lock_and_suspend() and unlock().
  * Renamed enumeration Cache_status to Cache_lock_status.
  * Renamed enumeration items to UNLOCKED, LOCKED_NO_WAIT and LOCKED.
    If the LOCKED_NO_WAIT lock type is used to lock the query cache, other
    threads using try_lock() will fail to acquire the lock.
    This is useful if the query cache is temporary disabled due to 
    a full table flush.
sql/sql_cache.h:
  * Replaced calls to wait_while_table_flush_is_in_progress() with
    calls to try_lock(), lock_and_suspend() and unlock().
  * Renamed enumeration Cache_status to Cache_lock_status.
  * Renamed enumeration items to UNLOCKED, LOCKED_NO_WAIT and LOCKED.
    If the LOCKED_NO_WAIT lock type is used to lock the query cache, other
    threads using try_lock() will fail to acquire the lock.
    This is useful if the query cache is temporary disabled due to 
    a full table flush.

times (ie: 2:16:20).

mysql-test/r/log_tables_debug.result:
  Update test case result.
mysql-test/t/log_tables_debug.test:
  Skip spaces and handle case when a leading zero is not printed.

mysql-test/t/log_tables_debug.test:
  Remove spurious spaces and disable session debugging.

statements missed from general log

A FLUSH LOGS is added to ensure that the log info hits
the file before attempting to process.

mysql-test/t/log_tables_debug.test:
  A FLUSH LOGS is added, and in the event that a match is
  not found, <FILE> is reset and the contents of the log
  file is dumped for debugging purposes.

crashes server!

The problem affects the scenario when index merge is followed by a filesort
and the sort buffer is not big enough for all the sort keys.
In this case the filesort function will read the data to the end through the 
index merge quick access method (and thus closing the cursor etc), 
but will leave the pointer to the quick select method in place.
It will then create a temporary file to hold the results of the filesort and
will add it as a sort output file (in sort.io_cache).
Note that filesort will copy the original 'sort' structure in an automatic
variable and restore it after it's done.
As a result at exiting filesort() we have a sort.io_cache filled in and 
nothing else (as a result of close of the cursors at end of reading data 
through index merge).
Now create_sort_index() will note that there is a select and will clean it up
(as it's been used already by filesort() reading the data in). While doing that
a special case in the index merge destructor will clean up the sort.io_cache,
assuming it's an output of the index merge method and is not needed anymore.
As a result the code that tries to read the data back from the filesort output 
will get no data in both memory and disk and will crash.
      
Fixed similarly to how filesort() does it : by copying the sort.io_cache structure
to a local variable, removing the pointer to the io_cache (so that it's not freed 
by QUICK_INDEX_MERGE_SELECT::~QUICK_INDEX_MERGE_SELECT) and restoring the original 
structure (together with the valid pointer) after the cleanup is done.
This is a safe thing to do because all the structures are already cleaned up by
hitting the end of the index merge's read method (QUICK_INDEX_MERGE_SELECT::get_next()) 
and the cleanup code being written in a way that tolerates repeating cleanups.

mysql-test/r/index_merge.result:
  Bug #44810: test case
mysql-test/t/index_merge.test:
  Bug #44810: test case
sql/sql_select.cc:
  Bug #44810: preserve the io_cache produced by filesort while cleaning up
  the index merge quick access method (QUICK_INDEX_MERGE_SELECT).