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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Want a way to strip comments from a
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Date: 22 Mar 89 15:56:20 GMT
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In article <16078@cup.portal.com> Tim_CDC_Roberts@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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