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

[Eric Blake]

On 08/02/2012 04:49 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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.

Fair enough; that argues that 'manywarnings' should be customized to
easily ditch this and other anachronistic warnings (for example,
-Wtraditional, -Wlong-long) in one line, rather than making every single
client repeat the same list of customizations.

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