diff --git a/lib/tokenize.cpp b/lib/tokenize.cpp
index cdf5e563d..ca41cbbb5 100644
--- a/lib/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/lib/tokenize.cpp
@@ -5248,6 +5248,9 @@ void Tokenizer::simplifyPointerToStandardType()
         if (!Token::Match(tok, "& %name% [ 0 ] !!["))
             continue;
 
+        if (!Token::Match(tok->previous(), "[,(=]"))
+            continue;
+
         // Remove '[ 0 ]' suffix
         tok->next()->eraseTokens(tok->next(), tok->tokAt(5));
         // Remove '&' prefix
diff --git a/test/testtokenize.cpp b/test/testtokenize.cpp
index 0eab14217..ad7133e61 100644
--- a/test/testtokenize.cpp
+++ b/test/testtokenize.cpp
@@ -4712,6 +4712,10 @@ private:
                       tokenizeAndStringify("char buf[100] ; readlink(path, &buf[0], 99);",
                                            false, true, Settings::Native, "test.c"));
 
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("void foo ( char * c ) { if ( 1 == ( 1 & c [ 0 ] ) ) { } }",
+                      tokenizeAndStringify("void foo(char *c) { if (1==(1 & c[0])) {} }",
+                                           false, true, Settings::Native, "test.c"));
+
         // Simplification of unknown type - C only
         ASSERT_EQUALS("foo data [ 100 ] ; something ( foo ) ;",
                       tokenizeAndStringify("foo data[100]; something(&foo[0]);", false, true, Settings::Native, "test.c"));