Auto merge of #41666 - nagisa:try-poking-bigendian-again, r=arielb1

Try fixing bigendian metadata serialisation

I compiled this on PPC to check and it seems to work, but not sure whether I didn't mess up
anything in a major way.

Maybe a good shot at #41443

The easiest way to *really* test this is to land the patch (a high priority would be good, since I quite literally am just twiddling my thumbs on this now), wait for nightly, and, if the nightly works, backport this to beta.

src/librustc_metadata/index.rs

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ impl Index {
         let pos = buf.position();
 
         // First we write the length of the lower range ...
-        buf.write_all(words_to_bytes(&[self.positions[0].len() as u32])).unwrap();
+        buf.write_all(words_to_bytes(&[(self.positions[0].len() as u32).to_le()])).unwrap();
         // ... then the values in the lower range ...
         buf.write_all(words_to_bytes(&self.positions[0][..])).unwrap();
         // ... then the values in the higher range.