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Alan Burlison reassigned MAPREDUCE-6397:
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Assignee: Alan Burlison
> MAPREDUCE makes many endian-dependent assumptions
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> Key: MAPREDUCE-6397
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-6397
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: build
> Affects Versions: 2.7.0
> Environment: Any big-endian platform
> Reporter: Alan Burlison
> Assignee: Alan Burlison
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> MAPREDUCE native code contains multiple uses of the bswap and bswap64
> assembler functions (from
> hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/main/native/src/lib/primitives.h).
> primitives.h contains neither a sparc implementation of bswap nor a
> platform-independent C fallback implementation. In addition, byte swaps are
> nearly always made without checking if the platform is big or little endian,
> the assumption hard-coded throughout the source seems to be that the platform
> is little-endian. This most likely means that the MAPREDUCE native is
> currently code non-portable to big-endian platforms. The code needs to be
> examined carefully to determine which byte swaps are correct on all platforms
> and which are endian-dependent.
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