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<h3 class="section">2.4 Work Faster: <span class="option">-f</span></h3>
<p><a name="index-_002df-59"></a><a name="index-trusted-compiler-60"></a><a name="index-faster-processing-_0028_0040option_007b_002df_007d_0029-61"></a><span class="samp">-f</span> should only be used when assembling programs written by a
(trusted) compiler. <span class="samp">-f</span> stops the assembler from doing whitespace
and comment preprocessing on
the input file(s) before assembling them. See <a href="Preprocessing.html#Preprocessing">Preprocessing</a>.
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<em>Warning:</em> if you use <span class="samp">-f</span> when the files actually need to be
preprocessed (if they contain comments, for example), <span class="command">as</span> does
not work correctly.
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