Bug#691677: libfftw3-3: Will libfftw3-3 support quad-precision library ?

[XIANGYU LIU]

Package: libfftw3-3
Version: 3.3.2-3.1
Severity: wishlist

Hi Dear Maintainers,

I just want to ask, is there possibility to support quad-precision in
libfftw3-3 library in next debian release ? 

Quad-precision (--enable-quad-precision) can support 128-bit float fft,
it might be useful for some specific applications.

Although it seems that quad-precision support is a nonstandard feature 
in C and need gcc 4.6 (or higher version) and only for x86/64 platform, 
but gcc 4.7 is already the default C compiler in wheezy, and the maybe 
we can support the feature only for amd64-arch ? 


Thanks,
Best Regards,
Xiangyu LIU


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.6.3-0.55 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libfftw3-3 depends on:
ii  libc6              2.13-35
ii  libgomp1           4.7.2-4
ii  multiarch-support  2.13-35

libfftw3-3 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libfftw3-3 suggests:
pn  libfftw3-bin  <none>
pn  libfftw3-dev  <none>

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