06.12.2017 9:45, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
Sooner of all due to historical reasons - see xdr_double.
According to wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format double is stored as two independent 32 bit pieces on some ARM architectures while on most of the world it is plain 8 bytes. Perhaps, this is a compatibility issue waiting to happen.
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