<html lang="en"> <head> <title>MSP430-Regs - Using as</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Using as"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="MSP430-Syntax.html#MSP430-Syntax" title="MSP430 Syntax"> <link rel="prev" href="MSP430_002dChars.html#MSP430_002dChars" title="MSP430-Chars"> <link rel="next" href="MSP430_002dExt.html#MSP430_002dExt" title="MSP430-Ext"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This file documents the GNU Assembler "as". Copyright (C) 1991-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="MSP430-Regs"></a> <a name="MSP430_002dRegs"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="MSP430_002dExt.html#MSP430_002dExt">MSP430-Ext</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="MSP430_002dChars.html#MSP430_002dChars">MSP430-Chars</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="MSP430-Syntax.html#MSP430-Syntax">MSP430 Syntax</a> <hr> </div> <h5 class="subsubsection">9.29.2.3 Register Names</h5> <p><a name="index-MSP-430-register-names-1640"></a><a name="index-register-names_002c-MSP-430-1641"></a>General-purpose registers are represented by predefined symbols of the form ‘<samp><span class="samp">r</span><var>N</var></samp>’ (for global registers), where <var>N</var> represents a number between <code>0</code> and <code>15</code>. The leading letters may be in either upper or lower case; for example, ‘<samp><span class="samp">r13</span></samp>’ and ‘<samp><span class="samp">R7</span></samp>’ are both valid register names. <p><a name="index-special-purpose-registers_002c-MSP-430-1642"></a>Register names ‘<samp><span class="samp">PC</span></samp>’, ‘<samp><span class="samp">SP</span></samp>’ and ‘<samp><span class="samp">SR</span></samp>’ cannot be used as register names and will be treated as variables. Use ‘<samp><span class="samp">r0</span></samp>’, ‘<samp><span class="samp">r1</span></samp>’, and ‘<samp><span class="samp">r2</span></samp>’ instead. </body></html>