o The low quadword contains the specified constant value. o The high quadword contains the sign extension of the specified constant value. That is, the high quadword contains 0 if the specified value is positive, and it contains all bits set to 1 if the specified value is negative. o You can only use this directive within data or mixed psects (psects that have either the NOEXE or MIX attributes). o If automatic data alignment is enabled, this directive aligns the current location counter to an octaword (128-bit) boundary before allocating storage.