The code interprets an array of 4 uint8_t values as one uint32_t
and does shifts on the value. The same optimization can be
kept in big endian as well, but the shift has to be done in the
other direction.
This code could be made truly independent of endianness, but
that could cause some minimal performance degradaion, at least
in theory.
This makes "make test" pass on big endian, assuming that
WORDS_BIGENDIAN is defined while building.
This makes the code work properly on big endian.
The MC case is similar to how it's done in the encoder.
Neither of these should have any significant performance
impact.
astyle was only run on .cpp files this time - already in
ff6b66917 where the style cleanup was done initially, not all
.h files seem to have gotten the same styling (rerunning astyle
on .h files at that commit produces a huge diff).
