field 'FIELD' is never assigned to, and will always have its default value

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private struct TOKEN_USER
    {
        internal SID_AND_ATTRIBUTES User;
    }

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
private struct SID_AND_ATTRIBUTES
   {
       internal IntPtr Sid;
       private int Attributes;
   }

Initializing the structure to default:

TOKEN_USER tokenUser = default(TOKEN_USER);

Then making the two required calls to retrieve the pointer to the structure: (not relevant to the question) using this:

GetTokenInformation(tokenhandle, TokenInformationClass.TokenUser, sid, sidlength, ref sidlength);

and then marshalling back to a structure.

tokenUser = (TOKEN_USER)Marshal.PtrToStructure(sid, tokenUser.GetType());

which works, but the compiler warns me that the 'User' field in TOKEN_USER is unassigned.

R# suggests me initializing it from the constructor:

public TOKEN_USER(SID_AND_ATTRIBUTES user) : this(user)
        {
        }

However, this doesn't compile, with error "Constructor cannot call itself". My question is, should i just assign it to SID_AND_ATTRIBUTES (default) to meet the compiler's requirement, or ignore it?

asked 34 secs ago

SomeNickName

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field 'FIELD' is never assigned to, and will always have its default value