diff --git a/tests/cmdline/cmdlinetest.cpp b/tests/cmdline/cmdlinetest.cpp
index ee100284ff..fc832615d2 100644
--- a/tests/cmdline/cmdlinetest.cpp
+++ b/tests/cmdline/cmdlinetest.cpp
@@ -299,6 +299,8 @@ void CmdLineTestCase::ArgumentsCollection()
 
 void CmdLineTestCase::Usage()
 {
+    wxGCC_WARNING_SUPPRESS(missing-field-initializers)
+
     // check that Usage() returns roughly what we expect (don't check all the
     // details, its format can change in the future)
     static const wxCmdLineEntryDesc desc[] =
@@ -319,6 +321,8 @@ void CmdLineTestCase::Usage()
         { wxCMD_LINE_NONE }
     };
 
+    wxGCC_WARNING_RESTORE(missing-field-initializers)
+
     wxCmdLineParser p(desc);
     const wxArrayString usageLines = wxSplit(p.GetUsageString(), '\n');
 
@@ -348,6 +352,8 @@ void CmdLineTestCase::Usage()
 
 void CmdLineTestCase::Found()
 {
+    wxGCC_WARNING_SUPPRESS(missing-field-initializers)
+
     static const wxCmdLineEntryDesc desc[] =
     {
         { wxCMD_LINE_SWITCH, "v", "verbose", "be verbose" },
@@ -359,6 +365,8 @@ void CmdLineTestCase::Found()
         { wxCMD_LINE_NONE }
     };
 
+    wxGCC_WARNING_RESTORE(missing-field-initializers)
+
     wxCmdLineParser p(desc);
     p.SetCmdLine ("-v --output hello -s 2 --date=2014-02-17 -f 0.2 input-file.txt");
 
diff --git a/tests/datetime/datetimetest.cpp b/tests/datetime/datetimetest.cpp
index a5258d417f..f4755e7c3f 100644
--- a/tests/datetime/datetimetest.cpp
+++ b/tests/datetime/datetimetest.cpp
@@ -699,6 +699,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestTimeFormat()
         3*3600 + 30*60
     };
 
+    wxGCC_WARNING_SUPPRESS(missing-field-initializers)
+
     static const Date formatTestDates[] =
     {
         { 29, wxDateTime::May, 1976, 18, 30, 00, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay },
@@ -717,6 +719,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestTimeFormat()
 #endif
     };
 
+    wxGCC_WARNING_RESTORE(missing-field-initializers)
+
     for ( unsigned idxtz = 0; idxtz < WXSIZEOF(timeZonesOffsets); ++idxtz )
     {
         wxDateTime::TimeZone tz(timeZonesOffsets[idxtz]);
@@ -917,6 +921,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestTimeParse()
 
 void DateTimeTestCase::TestTimeZoneParse()
 {
+    wxGCC_WARNING_SUPPRESS(missing-field-initializers)
+
     static const struct
     {
         const char *str;
@@ -964,6 +970,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestTimeZoneParse()
         { "17:37+04:0" },
     };
 
+    wxGCC_WARNING_RESTORE(missing-field-initializers)
+
     for ( size_t n = 0; n < WXSIZEOF(parseTestTimeZones); ++n )
     {
         wxDateTime dt;
@@ -986,6 +994,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestTimeZoneParse()
 
 void DateTimeTestCase::TestTimeSpanFormat()
 {
+    wxGCC_WARNING_SUPPRESS(missing-field-initializers)
+
     static const struct TimeSpanFormatTestData
     {
         long h, min, sec, msec;
@@ -1009,6 +1019,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestTimeSpanFormat()
         {    0,  0, -1,   0, "%H:%M:%S",      "-00:00:01"             },
     };
 
+    wxGCC_WARNING_RESTORE(missing-field-initializers)
+
     for ( size_t n = 0; n < WXSIZEOF(testSpans); n++ )
     {
         const TimeSpanFormatTestData& td = testSpans[n];
@@ -1037,6 +1049,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestTimeTicks()
 // test parsing dates in RFC822 format
 void DateTimeTestCase::TestParseRFC822()
 {
+    wxGCC_WARNING_SUPPRESS(missing-field-initializers)
+
     static const struct ParseTestData
     {
         const char *rfc822;
@@ -1081,6 +1095,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestParseRFC822()
         },
     };
 
+    wxGCC_WARNING_RESTORE(missing-field-initializers)
+
     for ( unsigned n = 0; n < WXSIZEOF(parseTestDates); n++ )
     {
         const char * const datestr = parseTestDates[n].rfc822;
@@ -1109,6 +1125,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestParseRFC822()
 // test parsing dates in free format
 void DateTimeTestCase::TestDateParse()
 {
+    wxGCC_WARNING_SUPPRESS(missing-field-initializers)
+
     static const struct ParseTestData
     {
         const char *str;
@@ -1129,6 +1147,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestDateParse()
         { "2 .  .    " },
     };
 
+    wxGCC_WARNING_RESTORE(missing-field-initializers)
+
     // special cases
     wxDateTime dt;
     CPPUNIT_ASSERT( dt.ParseDate(wxT("today")) );
@@ -1164,6 +1184,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestDateParse()
 
 void DateTimeTestCase::TestDateParseISO()
 {
+    wxGCC_WARNING_SUPPRESS(missing-field-initializers)
+
     static const struct
     {
         const char *str;
@@ -1199,6 +1221,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestDateParseISO()
         { "" },
     };
 
+    wxGCC_WARNING_RESTORE(missing-field-initializers)
+
     for ( size_t n = 0; n < WXSIZEOF(parseTestDates); n++ )
     {
         wxDateTime dt;
@@ -1238,6 +1262,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestDateParseISO()
 
 void DateTimeTestCase::TestDateTimeParse()
 {
+    wxGCC_WARNING_SUPPRESS(missing-field-initializers)
+
     static const struct ParseTestData
     {
         const char *str;
@@ -1270,6 +1296,8 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestDateTimeParse()
         },
     };
 
+    wxGCC_WARNING_RESTORE(missing-field-initializers)
+
     // the test strings here use "PM" which is not available in all locales so
     // we need to use "C" locale for them
     CLocaleSetter cloc;
diff --git a/tests/strings/strings.cpp b/tests/strings/strings.cpp
index 0829970c41..4c75a927cb 100644
--- a/tests/strings/strings.cpp
+++ b/tests/strings/strings.cpp
@@ -612,6 +612,8 @@ typedef wxLongLong_t TestValue_t;
 typedef long TestValue_t;
 #endif
 
+wxGCC_WARNING_SUPPRESS(missing-field-initializers)
+
 static const struct ToLongData
 {
     const wxChar *str;
@@ -667,6 +669,8 @@ static const struct ToLongData
     { wxT("0x11"), 17, Number_Ok,      16 },
 };
 
+wxGCC_WARNING_RESTORE(missing-field-initializers)
+
 void StringTestCase::ToLong()
 {
     long l;