read-cache.c: allow unaligned mapping of the index file

Both the on-disk format v2 and v3 pads the "name" field to the multiple of
eight to make sure that various quantities in network long/short type can
be accessed with ntohl/ntohs without having to worry about alignment, but
this forces us to waste disk I/O bandwidth.

Introduce ntoh_s()/ntoh_l() macros that the callers can use as if they were
the regular ntohs()/ntohl() on a field that may not be aligned correctly.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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