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Julien Le Dem commented on ARROW-245: ------------------------------------- here's a PR: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/113 > [Format] Clarify Arrow's relationship with big endian platforms > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-245 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-245 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Format > Reporter: Wes McKinney > > 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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)