Add byteswap intrinsics for converting from big/little to host endian #11265
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This patchset adds intrinsics similar to the to_[be|le][16|32|64] intrinsics but for going in the reverse direction, e.g. from big/little endian to host endian. Implementation wise they do exactly the same as the corresponding to_* functions but I think it anyway make sense to have them since using the to_* functions in the reverse direction is not entirely intuitive.
The first patch adds the intrinsics and the two following changes instances of bswap* to use the [to|from]_* intrinsics instead.