Add an example of handling doubles on AVR platform.

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diff --git a/example_avr_double/double_conversion.h b/example_avr_double/double_conversion.h
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+/* AVR-GCC does not have real double datatype. Instead its double
+ * is equal to float, i.e. 32 bit value. If you need to communicate
+ * with other systems that use double in their .proto files, you
+ * need to do some conversion.
+ *
+ * These functions use bitwise operations to mangle floats into doubles
+ * and then store them in uint64_t datatype.
+ */
+
+#ifndef DOUBLE_CONVERSION
+#define DOUBLE_CONVERSION
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+/* Convert native 4-byte float into a 8-byte double. */
+extern uint64_t float_to_double(float value);
+
+/* Convert 8-byte double into native 4-byte float.
+ * Values are rounded to nearest, 0.5 away from zero.
+ * Overflowing values are converted to Inf or -Inf.
+ */
+extern float double_to_float(uint64_t value);
+
+
+#endif
+