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The Berkeley DB access methods provide no guarantees about
byte alignment for returned key/data pairs, or callback
functions which take <a href="../api_reference/C/dbt.html" class="olink">DBT</a> references as arguments, and
applications are responsible for arranging any necessary
alignment. The <a href="../api_reference/C/dbt.html#dbt_DB_DBT_MALLOC" class="olink">DB_DBT_MALLOC</a>, <a href="../api_reference/C/dbt.html#dbt_DB_DBT_REALLOC" class="olink">DB_DBT_REALLOC</a>, and
<a href="../api_reference/C/dbt.html#dbt_DB_DBT_USERMEM" class="olink">DB_DBT_USERMEM</a> flags may be used to store returned items in
memory of arbitrary alignment.
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