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Register variables have their own stab type, N_RSYM, and their
own symbol descriptor, `r'. The stab's value is the
number of the register where the variable data will be stored.
AIX defines a separate symbol descriptor `d' for floating point registers. This seems unnecessary; why not just just give floating point registers different register numbers? I have not verified whether the compiler actually uses `d'.
If the register is explicitly allocated to a global variable, but not initialized, as in:
register int g_bar asm ("%g5");
then the stab may be emitted at the end of the object file, with the other bss symbols.
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