How to read register al in C?

Question

C++ / C#

Is there any way to read register al? It contains some data of type int, you need to get it from there into a variable. By the way,

int register_value;
asm("\t movl %%al, %0" "=r"(register_value));

doesn't work, gives "operand type mismatch for mov" error. The 32-bit eax and ebx registers are read normally.

Answer 1

char register_value;
al is 8-bit.