[jira] [Resolved] (ARROW-245) [Format] Clarify Arrow's relationship with big endian platforms

["Julien Le Dem (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-245?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Julien Le Dem resolved ARROW-245.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Issue resolved by pull request 113
[https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/113]

> [Format] Clarify Arrow's relationship with big endian platforms
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>
>                 Key: ARROW-245
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-245
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Format
>            Reporter: Wes McKinney
>            Assignee: Julien Le Dem
>
> Per August 2016 mailing list question re: big endian platforms, we have in the format document:
> https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/format/Layout.md#byte-order-endianness
> We should clarify that this does not mean that Arrow cannot be used on big endian platforms, but rather that the canonical or "in-flight" memory representation (for IPC or memory sharing of any kind) is little-endian, so big endian systems would need to byte swap big endian integers if they intend to expose memory to any other system using Arrow. 



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