From:	Simon Marchese <simondotmarchese AT btinternet DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp,gnu.gcc.help
Subject:	Re: Preprocessor and empty lines
Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:33:11 +0100
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Well, you could change the preprocessor - but why not just pipe the output
file through "tr -s '\n'" instead?

Alex Vinokur wrote:

> ===========================================
> gcc version 2.95.3 20010315/djgpp (release)
> Windows98
> ===========================================
>
> I would like preprocessor not to insert empty lines to generated files.
>
> Here is an example.
>
> ------ File xxx.1 ------
> #define AAA 1
> #define BBB 2
> #define CCC 3
> ------------------------
>
> ------ File xxx.2 ------
> #include xxx.1
> ------------------------
>
> %gcc -P -E -x c -o xxx.3 xxx.2
>
> ------ File xxx.3 ------
>
> ------------------------
> Note. File xxx.3 contains 4 empty lines.
>
> Is there any possibility to avoid inserting empty lines in example
> above?
>
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>   Alex Vinokur
>     mailto:alexvn AT bigfoot DOT com
>     http://up.to/alexvn
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