Use preprocessor macros instead of autoconf to detect endianness

This does not fix any particular issue but it's preferable to not
rely on autoconf. This avoids endianness mess for users on BE hosts
if they use their build without autoconf.

The macros are carefully written to err on the side of the caution,
e.g., we #error if the user manually configures a different endianness
than what we detect.

Author: real-or-random

configure.ac

@@ -493,8 +493,6 @@ if test x"$enable_module_recovery" = x"yes"; then
   AC_DEFINE(ENABLE_MODULE_RECOVERY, 1, [Define this symbol to enable the ECDSA pubkey recovery module])
 fi
 
-AC_C_BIGENDIAN()
-
 if test x"$use_external_asm" = x"yes"; then
   AC_DEFINE(USE_EXTERNAL_ASM, 1, [Define this symbol if an external (non-inline) assembly implementation is used])
 fi

src/hash_impl.h

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #define SECP256K1_HASH_IMPL_H
 
 #include "hash.h"
+#include "util.h"
 
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
@@ -27,9 +28,9 @@
     (h) = t1 + t2; \
 } while(0)
 
-#ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
+#if defined(SECP256K1_BIG_ENDIAN)
 #define BE32(x) (x)
-#else
+#elif defined(SECP256K1_LITTLE_ENDIAN)
 #define BE32(p) ((((p) & 0xFF) << 24) | (((p) & 0xFF00) << 8) | (((p) & 0xFF0000) >> 8) | (((p) & 0xFF000000) >> 24))
 #endif
 

src/util.h

@@ -179,6 +179,20 @@ static SECP256K1_INLINE void *manual_alloc(void** prealloc_ptr, size_t alloc_siz
 SECP256K1_GNUC_EXT typedef unsigned __int128 uint128_t;
 #endif
 
+#if defined(__BYTE_ORDER__)
+# if defined(__ORDER_LITTLE_ENDIAN__) && __BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_LITTLE_ENDIAN__ && !defined(SECP256K1_LITTLE_ENDIAN)
+#  define SECP256K1_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+# elif defined(__ORDER_BIG_ENDIAN__) && __BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_BIG_ENDIAN__ && !defined(SECP256K1_BIG_ENDIAN)
+#  define SECP256K1_BIG_ENDIAN
+# endif
+#endif
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) && defined(_WIN32) && !defined(SECP256K1_LITTLE_ENDIAN)
+# define SECP256K1_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+#endif
+#if defined(SECP256K1_LITTLE_ENDIAN) == defined(SECP256K1_BIG_ENDIAN)
+# error Please make sure that either SECP256K1_LITTLE_ENDIAN or SECP256K1_BIG_ENDIAN is set, see src/util.h.
+#endif
+
 /* Zero memory if flag == 1. Flag must be 0 or 1. Constant time. */
 static SECP256K1_INLINE void memczero(void *s, size_t len, int flag) {
     unsigned char *p = (unsigned char *)s;