Yu Li created HADOOP-9863: ----------------------------- 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira