The count we passed to memcmp() in mpi_eq() and mpi_eq_abs() was actually the number of significant words in the MPI, rather than the number of bytes we wanted to compare. Multiply by 4 to get the correct value.
To make the intent of the code more apparent, introduce a private MPI_MSW() macro which evaluates to the number of significant words (or 1-based index of the most significant word). This also comes in handy in mpi_{add,sub,mul}_abs().
Add a couple of test cases which not only demonstrate the bug we fixed here but also demonstrate why we must compare whole words: on a big-endian machine, we would be comparing the unused upper bytes of the first and only word instead of the lower bytes which actually hold a value...
We failed to clear the negative flag when handling trivial cases, so if one of the terms was 0 and the other was negative, the result would be an exact copy of the non-zero term instead of its absolute value.
If its operands were identical, cryb_mpi_add_abs() would leave the target untouched. Explicitly call mpi_zero() before returning. While there, extend the “identical operands” shortcut to also cover equality.
Both cryb_mpi_add_abs() and cryb_mpi_sub_abs() would leave the target's negative flag untouched. Explicitly clear it before returning.