$TEMPDIR/expr-opt.stat >$TEMPDIR/expr-opt.err 2> $TEMPDIR/expr-opt.out
activity="compare optimizing output"
-diff -B -b $TEMPDIR/expr-list $TEMPDIR/expr-opt.out
+perl -pi -e 's/^\s*$//g' $TEMPDIR/expr-list $TEMPDIR/expr-opt.out
+diff -b $TEMPDIR/expr-list $TEMPDIR/expr-opt.out
if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then fail ; fi
activity="create non-optimizing input"
$TEMPDIR/expr-noopt.stat >$TEMPDIR/expr-noopt.err 2> $TEMPDIR/expr-noopt.out
activity="compare non-optimizing output"
-diff -B -b $TEMPDIR/expr-list $TEMPDIR/expr-noopt.out
+perl -pi -e 's/^\s*$//g' $TEMPDIR/expr-list $TEMPDIR/expr-noopt.out
+diff -b $TEMPDIR/expr-list $TEMPDIR/expr-noopt.out
if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then fail ; fi
activity="create optimizing postfix input"