Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:07:26 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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	Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:35:49 +0200)
Subject: Re: Preprocessor and empty lines
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> From: Alex Vinokur <alexvn AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,gnu.gcc.help
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:35:49 +0200
> 
> ------ 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?

Try using -traditional in the switches.  If that doesn't help, either,
I'd suggest to filter out the empty lines with Sed or something.