[GitHub] [arrow-rs] alamb commented on issue #859: IPC big endian offsets are not translated

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alamb commented on issue #859:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/859#issuecomment-1100856752

   I agree an error would be better than an invalid array. Later on if it is
   important we can add support for little endian
   
   On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 12:28 PM Raphael Taylor-Davies <
   ***@***.***> wrote:
   
   > The reference here
   > <https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#byte-order-endianness>
   > suggests it is acceptable for implementations to simply not support files
   > with non-native byte order
   >
   > At first we will return an error when trying to read a Schema with an
   > endianness that does not match the underlying system. The reference
   > implementation is focused on Little Endian and provides tests for it.
   > Eventually we may provide automatic conversion via byte swapping.
   >
   > I therefore think an acceptable approach would be to return an error if
   > attempting to read a file with a non-native byte order
   >
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