diff --git a/src/librustc_ast_pretty/pprust.rs b/src/librustc_ast_pretty/pprust.rs
index b0edb1ca41d..4b228629ad7 100644
--- a/src/librustc_ast_pretty/pprust.rs
+++ b/src/librustc_ast_pretty/pprust.rs
@@ -450,7 +450,9 @@ pub trait PrintState<'a>: std::ops::Deref<Target = pp::Printer> + std::ops::Dere
     fn print_comment(&mut self, cmnt: &comments::Comment) {
         match cmnt.style {
             comments::Mixed => {
-                self.zerobreak();
+                if !self.is_beginning_of_line() {
+                    self.zerobreak();
+                }
                 if let Some((last, lines)) = cmnt.lines.split_last() {
                     self.ibox(0);
 
diff --git a/src/test/pretty/block-comment-wchar.pp b/src/test/pretty/block-comment-wchar.pp
index 9317b36ba49..2bfcdd75e15 100644
--- a/src/test/pretty/block-comment-wchar.pp
+++ b/src/test/pretty/block-comment-wchar.pp
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ fn f() {
     */
 
 
-
     /* */
 
     /*
@@ -81,7 +80,6 @@ fn f() {
       Space 6+2:                     compare A
       Ogham Space Mark 6+2: compare B
     */
-
     /* */
 
     /*
diff --git a/src/test/pretty/issue-74745.rs b/src/test/pretty/issue-74745.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e255cd6caa8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/pretty/issue-74745.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+// ignore-tidy-trailing-newlines
+// pretty-compare-only
+
+/*
+*/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/tools/compiletest/src/runtest.rs b/src/tools/compiletest/src/runtest.rs
index 9354cc16a9a..940e16720f6 100644
--- a/src/tools/compiletest/src/runtest.rs
+++ b/src/tools/compiletest/src/runtest.rs
@@ -178,27 +178,30 @@ pub fn make_diff(expected: &str, actual: &str, context_size: usize) -> Vec<Misma
     results
 }
 
-fn print_diff(expected: &str, actual: &str, context_size: usize) {
+fn write_diff(expected: &str, actual: &str, context_size: usize) -> String {
+    use std::fmt::Write;
+    let mut output = String::new();
     let diff_results = make_diff(expected, actual, context_size);
     for result in diff_results {
         let mut line_number = result.line_number;
         for line in result.lines {
             match line {
                 DiffLine::Expected(e) => {
-                    println!("-\t{}", e);
+                    writeln!(output, "-\t{}", e).unwrap();
                     line_number += 1;
                 }
                 DiffLine::Context(c) => {
-                    println!("{}\t{}", line_number, c);
+                    writeln!(output, "{}\t{}", line_number, c).unwrap();
                     line_number += 1;
                 }
                 DiffLine::Resulting(r) => {
-                    println!("+\t{}", r);
+                    writeln!(output, "+\t{}", r).unwrap();
                 }
             }
         }
-        println!();
+        writeln!(output, "").unwrap();
     }
+    output
 }
 
 pub fn run(config: Config, testpaths: &TestPaths, revision: Option<&str>) {
@@ -655,8 +658,12 @@ impl<'test> TestCx<'test> {
                  ------------------------------------------\n\
                  {}\n\
                  ------------------------------------------\n\
-                 \n",
-                expected, actual
+                 diff:\n\
+                 ------------------------------------------\n\
+                 {}\n",
+                expected,
+                actual,
+                write_diff(expected, actual, 3),
             ));
         }
     }
@@ -3227,7 +3234,7 @@ impl<'test> TestCx<'test> {
                     }
                     let expected_string = fs::read_to_string(&expected_file).unwrap();
                     if dumped_string != expected_string {
-                        print_diff(&expected_string, &dumped_string, 3);
+                        print!("{}", write_diff(&expected_string, &dumped_string, 3));
                         panic!(
                             "Actual MIR output differs from expected MIR output {}",
                             expected_file.display()
@@ -3452,7 +3459,7 @@ impl<'test> TestCx<'test> {
                 println!("normalized {}:\n{}\n", kind, actual);
             } else {
                 println!("diff of {}:\n", kind);
-                print_diff(expected, actual, 3);
+                print!("{}", write_diff(expected, actual, 3));
             }
         }