Yu Li created HADOOP-9863:
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Summary: Snappy compression cannot work on Big-Endian 64 bit
platform w/o backporting HADOOP-8686
Key: HADOOP-9863
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9863
Project: Hadoop Common
Issue Type: Bug
Components: native
Affects Versions: 1.2.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.1
Reporter: Yu Li
Assignee: Yu Li
w/o changes made in HADOOP-8686 on SnappyCompressor.c, snappy compression in
branch-1 hadoop on big endian 64 bit platform (ppc64 for example) will generate
incorrect .snappy (almost-empty) file because of type casting from size_t to
jint. Will include more detailed analysis in comments.
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