MDEV-21981 Replace arithmetic + with bitwise OR when possible

Several macros such as sint2korr() and uint4korr() are using the
arithmetic + operator while a bitwise or operator would suffice.

GCC 5 and clang 5 and later can detect patterns consisting of
bitwise or and shifts by multiples of 8 bits, such as those used
in the InnoDB function mach_read_from_4(). They actually translate
that verbose low-level code into high-level machine language
(i486 bswap instruction or fused into the Haswell movbe instruction).

We should do the same for MariaDB Server code that is outside InnoDB.

Note: The Microsoft C compiler is lacking this optimization.
There, we might consider using _byteswap_ushort(), _byteswap_ulong(),
_byteswap_uint64(). But, those would lead to unaligned reads, which are
bad for reasons stated in MDEV-20277. Besides, outside InnoDB,
most data is already being stored in the native little-endian format
of that compiler.

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