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.

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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

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