64 bit

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:34 PM, John Dablin <jdablin at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On 25/07/14 08:46, John Ralls wrote:
>>
>> It might be. I don't think anyone has tried. Mingw64 would be required.
>> Note that I also don't think that there's any good reason to, as GnuCash's
>> data fits easily in a 32-bit address space.
>
> This is pure curiosity, but the maximum value of a 32 bit signed integer is
> 2,147,483,647, so if that were cents it would represent $21,474,836.47. My
> bank balance will never grow that high, worse luck, but a medium sized
> business might have totals of that order. Does Gnucash use multi-word data
> types to handle this, or would it cause an error?

The 32 bits in a 32 bit operating system refers only to the amount of
address space (RAM) that a process can access.  It has nothing to do
with the number of bits in data elements used by a program, which can
be 64 bits, 128 bits, or even more.

-- 
Jeff Ollie