Truncate denormalized floating point values to 0 when writing ASCII

Paraview (well, probably VTK) on macOS crashes when reading ASCII files with denormalized float values. This seems to be due to libc++'s IO stream implementation, which sets the fail bit when reading a denormalized value. On top of that, Paraview just segfaults when encountering a fail bit while loading VTK files.

libstdc++ does not set the failt bit, and I don't know what is the correct behavior, but having Paraview mysteriously crash on DUNE output files is not good.

So this patch truncates subnormal floating point values to 0 when writing ASCII. This should not seriously influence any visualization results, but it might trip up people who use exact floating point comparisons for tests (but then you shouldn't do that anyway...).

changed milestone to %DUNE 2.7.0

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• 92764db8 - [vtk] Truncate denormalized floating point values to 0 when writing ASCII
• a77cd4e9 - [doc] Add changelog entry for truncating subnormal floats in VTK

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• 7a86be30 - [vtk] Truncate denormalized floating point values to 0 when writing ASCII
• 7b8af4fd - [doc] Add changelog entry for truncating subnormal floats in VTK

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mentioned in commit d91ccd8c