At 02:22 PM 7/26/2001 -0700, Jason Wharton wrote:

>I also have a BLR sample application that shows you how to write a BLR
>client so you can take full advantage of Interbase capabilities. It's still
>a bit rough though as I have not been able to figure out how the message
>field alignment in the buffers works under certain combinations. We will
>probably need to examine the sources to figure this out.

There's no fixed way of handling message field alignment - in theory,
it just works. In practice, gpre (and others, I expect) order the fields
in a message by size to minimize the impact of alignment.

All fields that are an even multiple of eight come first,
Then all fields that are a multiple of four,
Then two
Then the others.

Remember that Cstring is actually requested length + 1 and varchar
is requested length + 2.


Regards,

Ann
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