Solving the endian bug on MacOS

[aryan26roy]

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[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #1538 (45d0411) into main (78a6535) will decrease coverage by 0.12%.
The diff coverage is 58.27%.

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
src/awkward/_v2/contents/indexedoptionarray.py	89.14% <54.54%> (-0.70%)	⬇️
src/awkward/_v2/highlevel.py	70.77% <57.60%> (-2.76%)	⬇️
src/awkward/_v2/_connect/numba/arrayview.py	96.76% <100.00%> (ø)
src/awkward/_v2/types/recordtype.py	86.72% <100.00%> (-0.35%)	⬇️
src/awkward/_v2/types/numpytype.py	88.09% <0.00%> (-1.20%)	⬇️
src/awkward/_v2/record.py	76.86% <0.00%> (-0.18%)	⬇️
src/awkward/_v2/contents/content.py	76.61% <0.00%> (ø)
src/awkward/_v2/operations/ak_is_none.py	96.55% <0.00%> (+0.39%)	⬆️
src/awkward/_v2/operations/ak_type.py	53.84% <0.00%> (+2.56%)	⬆️

[jpivarski]

The bug is actually not related to endianness, but some compiler optimization that optimizes away our byteswap function. Mac has the same endianness as all other x86's, but the function that actively swaps was somehow not being invoked.

[jpivarski]

@all-contributors please add @aryan26roy for code

[allcontributors]

@jpivarski

I've put up a pull request to add @aryan26roy! 🎉