Want a way to strip comments from a

[Tim_CDC_Roberts at cup.portal.com]

You know, this discussion has brought up something that has bothered me
(although not a great deal).

When scanning the result of preprocessing a nontrivial C program with 
many include files, one finds dozens (in some cases hundreds) of blank
lines.  Obviously, they are the result of eliminating preprocessor
directives and multiline comments.  What I have always wondered is why,
given the #line directive which can re-sync the preprocessor and the
compiler, does the preprocessor insist on keeping all those blank lines?
Why not eliminate them and issue a #line instead?

Just curious.

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