BUG#12911710 - VALGRIND FAILURE IN ROW-DEBUG:PERFSCHEMA.SOCKET_SUMMARY_BY_INSTANCE_FUNC

Converting the number zero to binary and back yielded the number zero,
but with no digits, i.e. zero precision.
This made the multiply algorithm go haywire in various ways.


include/decimal.h:
  Document struct st_decimal_t
mysql-test/r/type_newdecimal.result:
  New test case (valgrind warnings)
mysql-test/t/type_newdecimal.test:
  New test case (valgrind warnings)
sql/my_decimal.h:
  Remove the HAVE_purify enabled/disabled code.
strings/decimal.c:
  Make a proper zero, with non-zero precision.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/decimal.h b/include/decimal.h
index 530ed9e1757..c377bd4a400 100644
--- a/include/decimal.h
+++ b/include/decimal.h
@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ typedef enum
   decimal_round_mode;
 typedef int32 decimal_digit_t;
 
+/**
+    intg is the number of *decimal* digits (NOT number of decimal_digit_t's !)
+         before the point
+    frac is the number of decimal digits after the point
+    len  is the length of buf (length of allocated space) in decimal_digit_t's,
+         not in bytes
+    sign false means positive, true means negative
+    buf  is an array of decimal_digit_t's
+ */
 typedef struct st_decimal_t {
   int    intg, frac, len;
   my_bool sign;