ascii_strtod that actually does what we need

Dirk's ascii_strtod was blindly copied from other GPL code and didn't do
what was the main purpose (i.e. ignore the locale and still accept the
numbers we have in our data files).

This implementation does *not* care about INF/NaN, and it does *not* try
to handle some strange conditions (overflow/underflow), and I do *not*
guarantee that it doesn't have rounding issues.

That said, for our native format, we never print odd FP numbers anyway
(since we use fixed-point integer arithmetic), and while we *do* care
about exponents for some of the odder import formats (I remember
seeing them in jdivelog output), we don't care about the crazy cases.
So rather than worry about getting the edge cases right for the max
double exponents (around +-308), it just says "screw you" and gives
you something close enough.

So what it *does* try to do is handle the actual parsing right, and
get the right answer for all the reasonable cases.

Works-For-Me(tm).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>

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