The nan* functions handle their string argument by constructing a
NAN(...) string on the stack as a VLA and passing it to strtod
functions.
This approach has problems discussed in bug 16961 and bug 16962: the
stack usage is unbounded, and it gives incorrect results in certain
cases where the argument is not a valid n-char-sequence.
The natural fix for both issues is to refactor the NaN payload parsing
out of strtod into a separate function that the nan* functions can
call directly, so that no temporary string needs constructing on the
stack at all. This patch does that refactoring in preparation for
fixing those bugs (but without actually using the new functions from
nan* - which will also require exporting them from libc at version
GLIBC_PRIVATE). This patch is not intended to change any user-visible
behavior, so no tests are added (fixes for the above bugs will of
course add tests for them).
This patch builds on my recent fixes for strtol and strtod issues in
Turkish locales. Given those fixes, the parsing of NaN payloads is
locale-independent; thus, the new functions do not need to take a
locale_t argument.