Looks like a single bit in the facility bit string is being used to
reflect the presence of several of the new facilities;  in the past, IBM
generally used one bit to indicate the presence of each new facility;
bit 45 in the facility bit string says this (page 4-68):

"The distinct-operands, fast-BCR-serialization, high-word,
interlocked-access, load/store-on-condition, and population-count
facilities are installed in the z/Architecture architectural mode."

Mike Shaw
MVS/QuickRef Support Group
Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

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