Fix warnings flagged by the new warning option -Wunused-but-set-variable
that was added to GCC 4.6 and that is enabled by -Wunused and -Wall. The
option causes a warning whenever a local variable is assigned to but is
later unused. It also warns about meaningless pointer dereferences.
Essentially, the problem is that safemalloc is excruciatingly
slow as it checks all allocated blocks for overrun at each
memory management primitive, yielding a almost exponential
slowdown for the memory management functions (malloc, realloc,
free). The overrun check basically consists of verifying some
bytes of a block for certain magic keys, which catches some
simple forms of overrun. Another minor problem is violation
of aliasing rules and that its own internal list of blocks
is prone to corruption.
Another issue with safemalloc is rather the maintenance cost
as the tool has a significant impact on the server code.
Given the magnitude of memory debuggers available nowadays,
especially those that are provided with the platform malloc
implementation, maintenance of a in-house and largely obsolete
memory debugger becomes a burden that is not worth the effort
due to its slowness and lack of support for detecting more
common forms of heap corruption.
Since there are third-party tools that can provide the same
functionality at a lower or comparable performance cost, the
solution is to simply remove safemalloc. Third-party tools
can provide the same functionality at a lower or comparable
performance cost.
The removal of safemalloc also allows a simplification of the
malloc wrappers, removing quite a bit of kludge: redefinition
of my_malloc, my_free and the removal of the unused second
argument of my_free. Since free() always check whether the
supplied pointer is null, redudant checks are also removed.
Also, this patch adds unit testing for my_malloc and moves
my_realloc implementation into the same file as the other
memory allocation primitives.
Apart strict-aliasing warnings, fix the remaining warnings
generated by GCC 4.4.4 -Wall and -Wextra flags.
One major source of warnings was the in-house function my_bcmp
which (unconventionally) took pointers to unsigned characters
as the byte sequences to be compared. Since my_bcmp and bcmp
are deprecated functions whose only difference with memcmp is
the return value, every use of the function is replaced with
memcmp as the special return value wasn't actually being used
by any caller.
There were also various other warnings, mostly due to type
mismatches, missing return values, missing prototypes, dead
code (unreachable) and ignored return values.
and a backport of relevant changes from the 6.0
version of the fix done by Ingo Struewing.
The bug itself was fixed by the patch for Bug#54811.
MyISAMMRG engine would try to use MMAP on its children
even on platforms that don't support it and even if
myisam_use_mmap option was off.
This lead to an infinite hang in INSERT ... SELECT into
a MyISAMMRG table when the destination MyISAM table
was also selected from.
A bug in duplicate detection fixed by 54811 was essential to
the hang - when a duplicate is detected, the optimizer
disables the use of memory mapped files, and it wasn't the case.
The patch below is also to not turn on MMAP on children tables
if myisam_use_mmap is off.
A test case is added to cover MyISAMMRG and myisam_use_mmap
option.
Bug#47633 - assert in ha_myisammrg::info during OPTIMIZE
The server crashed on an attempt to optimize a MERGE table with
non-existent child table.
mysql_admin_table() relied on the table to be successfully open
if a table object had been allocated.
Changed code to check return value of the open function before
calling a handler:: function on it.
strict aliasing violations.
Essentially, the problem is that large parts of the server were
developed in simpler times (last decades, pre C99 standard) when
strict aliasing and compilers supporting such optimizations were
rare to non-existent. Thus, when compiling the server with a modern
compiler that uses strict aliasing rules to perform optimizations,
there are several places in the code that might trigger undefined
behavior.
As evinced by some recent bugs, GCC does a somewhat good of job
misoptimizing such code, but on the other hand also gives warnings
about suspicious code. One problem is that the warnings aren't
always accurate, yet we can't afford to just shut them off as we
might miss real cases. False-positive cases are aggravated mostly
by casts that are likely to trigger undefined behavior.
The solution is to start a cleanup process focused on fixing and
reducing the amount of strict-aliasing related warnings produced
by GCC and others compilers. A good deal of noise reduction can
be achieved by just removing useless casts that are product of
historical cruft and are likely to trigger undefined behavior if
dereferenced.
(make relies GNU extentions). The patch was partially
backport from 6.0.
Original comment:
bug#30708: make relies GNU extensions. Now that we no longer use
BitKeeper we can safely remove the SCCS handling with no loss of
functionality.
even if myisam-recover is OFF
The problem was that a corrupted MyISAM table was auto repaired
even if the myisam_recover_options server variable (or the
myisam_recover option) was set to OFF.
The reason was that the auto_repair() function, which is supposed
to say if auto repair is to be used, did not use the server variable
setting correctly. This bug was a regression introduced by WL#4738.
This patch fixes the problem by making sure auto_repair() returns
FALSE if myisam_recover_options is set to OFF.
Test case added to myisam.test.
Conflicts:
Text conflict in mysql-test/r/func_str.result
Text conflict in mysql-test/suite/sys_vars/r/myisam_sort_buffer_size_basic_32.result
Text conflict in mysql-test/suite/sys_vars/r/myisam_sort_buffer_size_basic_64.result
Text conflict in mysql-test/t/func_str.test
Text conflict in sql/mysqld.cc
Text conflict in sql/protocol.cc
Text conflict in storage/myisam/mi_open.c
data and index files
It was possible if DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY is pointing to
symlinked MySQL data home directory.
Do not allow to drop data/index files implicitly symlinked
to data home directory. For such tables remove symlink only.
This patch:
- Moves all definitions from the mysql_priv.h file into
header files for the component where the variable is
defined
- Creates header files if the component lacks one
- Eliminates all include directives from mysql_priv.h
- Eliminates all circular include cycles
- Rename time.cc to sql_time.cc
- Rename mysql_priv.h to sql_priv.h
Repairing MyISAM table with fulltext indexes and low
myisam_sort_buffer_size may crash the server.
Estimation of number of index entries was done incorrectly,
causing further assertion failure or server crash.
Docs note: min value for myisam_sort_buffer_size has been
changed from 4 to 4096.
