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+                           AMD64 CHEATSHEET
+
+I have recently started doing some projects AMD64 assembly and found
+myself wanting a quick reference for a few things, so I created a
+cheatsheet in LaTeX.  To render the PDF (given you have a working TeX
+Live installation), run "pdflatex main".