Why are there so many form feeds in the source?

Running this from the root of the Make repo:

cd src && grep -c $'\f' *.[ch] | grep -v ':0$' | sort -t : -k 2 -n -r | awk
-F : 'BEGIN {printf "%-15s Number of form feeds\n", "File"; print
"------------------------------------" } {printf "%-15s %2d\n", $1, $2}'

Results in:

File            Number of form feeds
------------------------------------
variable.c      17
read.c          15
misc.c          12
job.c           11
function.c      10
dir.c           10
remake.c         9
main.c           8
file.c           8
expand.c         6
commands.c       6
vpath.c          5
rule.c           5
output.c         5
getopt.c         4
arscan.c         4
remote-stub.c    3
remote-cstms.c   3
ar.c             3
implicit.c       2
getopt1.c        2
version.c        1
makeint.h        1
hash.h           1
default.c        1

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