From: Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 14:45:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Document format of suppression files comment lines and blank lines.
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Document format of suppression files comment lines and blank lines.

Seems this was not documented.
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diff --git a/docs/xml/manual-core.xml b/docs/xml/manual-core.xml
index 4480f59280..2e90ab7b8c 100644
--- a/docs/xml/manual-core.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/manual-core.xml
@@ -419,6 +419,10 @@ existing suppressions file whilst reading the following documentation.
 The file <filename>glibc-2.3.supp</filename>, in the source
 distribution, provides some good examples.</para>
 
+<para>Blank and comment lines in a suppression file are ignored.  Comment lines
+  are made of 0 or more blanks followed by a # character followed by some
+  text.</para>
+
 <para>Each suppression has the following components:</para>
 
 <itemizedlist>