Value initialization and Non POD types

Solution 1:

Visual Studio has known bugs in all current versions (2005, 2008, 2010) where it doesn't correctly implement value-initialization for non-POD types that don't have a user declared constructor.

By the language rules none of you asserts should fire but do exhibit the compiler issues. These are some of the bug reports, note that they are all closed or resolved as "Won't Fix".

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/564268/c-value-initialization

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/484295/vc-does-not-value-initialize-members-of-derived-classes-without-user-declared-constructor

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/100744/value-initialization-in-new-expression

Solution 2:

For people who stumble upon this question in 2015, like me:

All of the above issues have been fixed in VS 2015. Value initialization now works as defined in the standard.