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<h5 class="subsubsection">9.31.3.1 Register naming</h5>
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The <code>as</code> recognizes a number of predefined symbols for the
various processor registers. A register specification in one of the
instruction formats is an unsigned integer between 0 and 15. The specific
instruction and the position of the register in the instruction format
denotes the type of the register. The register symbols are prefixed with
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">%</span></samp>&rsquo;:
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<p><table summary=""><tr align="left"><td valign="top">%rN </td><td valign="top">the 16 general purpose registers, 0 &lt;= N &lt;= 15
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">%fN </td><td valign="top">the 16 floating point registers, 0 &lt;= N &lt;= 15
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">%aN </td><td valign="top">the 16 access registers, 0 &lt;= N &lt;= 15
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">%cN </td><td valign="top">the 16 control registers, 0 &lt;= N &lt;= 15
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">%lit </td><td valign="top">an alias for the general purpose register %r13
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">%sp </td><td valign="top">an alias for the general purpose register %r15
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