Use gcc -E
to only run the preprocessor part, e.g. give a file in.c
#if 0
0;
#endif
#if 1
1;
#endif
running
$ gcc -E in.c -o in.i
yields a file in.i
# 1 "in.cpp"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command-line>"
# 1 "in.cpp"
1;
i.e. the parts behind the #if 0
got removed. If you would have #include
‘d files they would have been pasted too though, so I am not sure how much help this is.