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Big endian unable to decompress data compressed on little-endian #32
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On BE (POWER8, to be precise), lznt1, xpress, and xpress-huffman are all unable to properly decompress data which was compressed on little-endian (x86_64). All three codecs do work on BE so long as the data was also compressed on BE.

If you want, I can provide access to a VM for debugging and testing.

It's probably a bit overkill, but https://github.com/quixdb/squash/blob/master/plugins/crush/crush.c#L57 has some code for cross-platform endianness handling.

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