Want a way to strip comments from a

[Chris Torek]

In article <16078 at cup.portal.com> Tim_CDC_Roberts at cup.portal.com writes:
>When scanning the result of preprocessing a nontrivial C program with 
>many include files, one finds dozens (in some cases hundreds) of blank
>lines. ... Why not eliminate them and issue a #line instead?

Why bother?  Typically there are at most a few tens in a row.  It is
probably faster to count 20 blank lines than to process one
`#line 1234' directive.
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