On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 6:23 AM, Köditz, Martin Martin.Koeditz@... [firebird-support] <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

what do you mean with alignment?

It varies from machine to machine, but generally in order to add or compare two integers

they must be aligned on a "natural" boundary.  For modern machines, the minimum

boundary is 32 bits ... I think some 64 bit machines require a 64 bit boundary, but it's

been three years since I've thought about this at all, and I could be wrong.  What that

means in practice is that when building a record in memory, Firebird pads numbers so

they fall on 32 or 64 bit boundaries.

Cheers,

Ann