[Preprocessor] Implement -fminimize-whitespace.
This patch adds the -fminimize-whitespace with the following effects: * If combined with -E, remove as much non-line-breaking whitespace as possible. * If combined with -E -P, removes as much whitespace as possible, including line-breaks. The motivation is to reduce the amount of insignificant changes in the preprocessed output with source files where only whitespace has been changed (add/remove comments, clang-format, etc.) which is in particular useful with ccache. A patch for ccache for using this flag has been proposed to ccache as well: https://github.com/ccache/ccache/pull/815, which will use -fnormalize-whitespace when clang-13 has been detected, and additionally uses -P in "unify_mode". ccache already had a unify_mode in an older version which was removed because of problems that using the preprocessor itself does not have (such that the custom tokenizer did not recognize C++11 raw strings). This patch slightly reorganizes which part is ...
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