Re: stat-time.h vs. -Waggregate-return

[Paul Eggert]

On 08/02/2012 03:40 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> /* Store *ST's access time into *TS.  */
> static inline void
> get_stat_atime (struct stat const *st, struct timespec *ts)

I'd rather not go that route, as the functional style is easier
to read -- in particular, it tends to avoid aliasing issues.

In the GNU apps I'm familiar with (Emacs, coreutils, ...)
we simply disable -Waggregate-return.  It a completely
anachronistic warning, since its motivation was to
support backwards compatibility with C compilers that
did not allow returning structures.  Those compilers
are long dead and are no longer of practical concern.