1 1 2.4 Work Faster: '-f' 1 ===================== 1 1 '-f' should only be used when assembling programs written by a (trusted) 1 compiler. '-f' stops the assembler from doing whitespace and comment 11 preprocessing on the input file(s) before assembling them. ⇒ Preprocessing Preprocessing. 1 1 _Warning:_ if you use '-f' when the files actually need to be 1 preprocessed (if they contain comments, for example), 'as' does not 1 work correctly. 1