-Wmissing-field-initializer when using designated initializers

Question

I\'m using GCC 4.6.2 (Mingw) and compiling with -Wextra. I\'m getting strange warnings whenever I use designated initializers. For the following code

Answer 1

It seems that the warning is, as you say, "too blunt".

This pattern of access, initializing each member struct as a whole, satisfies the compiler:

bug_struct bug_struct1 =
{
    .s1 = {.x = 1, .y = 2},
    .s2[0] = {.x = 1, .y = 2},
    .s2[1] = {.x = 1, .y = 2},
    .s2[2] = {.x = 1, .y = 2},
    .s2[3] = {.x = 1, .y = 2}
};