Can `cpp' strip off comments in C source code?

[NightStrike]

On 12/23/07, PRC <panruochen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to use an AWK script to process a C source code. The comments may mislead the script. To make things easy, I'd like to strip off comments from the source code before having the script to process it. Since `cpp' is a c-preprecessor utility, I'd like to know weather it can be used to strip off comments from the source code. I check the manual, but have no idea which options to use. If it can't, is there any other tools which can do this?

AWK itself can do it, as can sed.