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#### 9.38.3.1 Register naming

The `as` 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 ‘`%`’:

    %rN
    the 16 general purpose registers, 0 <= N <= 15
    %fN
    the 16 floating point registers, 0 <= N <= 15
    %aN
    the 16 access registers, 0 <= N <= 15
    %cN
    the 16 control registers, 0 <= N <= 15
    %lit
    an alias for the general purpose register %r13
    %sp
    an alias for the general purpose register %r15