Weird stock value behavior

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
19 Nov 2001 16:31:33 -0500


What do you have recorded as the price of the shares?  If you change
the price does this behavior change?

-derek

Jonathan Corbet <lwn-gnucash@lwn.net> writes:

> [Trying again with a suitably tweaked return address].
> 
> FYI...
> 
> I've installed the 1.6.4-2.1 package put up for Debian unstable.  Here's an
> interesting bit of behavior, found through a binary search....  If I put in
> a stock account with 196,241 shares, all works well.  As soon as it goes to
> 196,242, the value of the account turns negative.  It looks like something
> is overflowing somewhere?
> 
> 1.4.x works fine with that account, BTW.
> 
> jon
> 
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