Why do I get these warnings in Visual C++ 2008 when building a struct?

Question

I have this code

typedef struct
{
    const char* fooString;
    const bool  fooBool;
}fooStruct;

And this initializer:

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Answer 1

Also if you do partial initialization then MSVC2008 will throw errors (as does MSVC2010) which is incorrect behavior as defined by C++03 and C++11. I posted more on this in another thread on stack overflow which you can read here

// Partial initialization, leaving it to the compiler
// to do aggregate value-initialization
fooStruct foo ={"file1", /*missing true/false, compiler should set false*/ };

MSVC will throw an error on this code along with the warnings you mentioned.