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From: Tim_CDC_Roberts@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Want a way to strip comments from a
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Date: 23 Mar 89 17:22:11 GMT
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I hereby revoke my suggestion that the preprocessor should suppress blank
lines and use #line instead.  In a typically homocentric fashion, I 
neglected to realize that even though it is more difficult for *ME* to
read a preprocessor output with many blank lines, it is trivially easy
for the compiler lexical analyzer to ignore them, since a "blank line"
is only one byte long.  Thanks to those who pointed this out.

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