VA takes three vector-register operands; it's VL that takes a storage operand.
I never claimed that HLASM supported quadword integers, just that there were more than two instructions for quadword binary integer arithmetic. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2022 8:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Quadword constant On Apr 18, 2022, at 16:48:23, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > VA foo,bar,baz,4 > Please show how to define foo, bar, and baz with HLASM to specify A dividend of fixed point 1E15. Did you use a calculator? > ________________________________________ > From: Steve Smith > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2022 11:41 AM > > HLASM has fixed BINARY constant type specifiers for H, F, FD. The > architecture has no support that I know of for 16-byte fixed binary, so why > should the assembler? > The dividend for a Grande divide. -- gil
