diff --git a/lib/cppcheck.cpp b/lib/cppcheck.cpp
index 9353cde79..694207da7 100644
--- a/lib/cppcheck.cpp
+++ b/lib/cppcheck.cpp
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ bool CppCheck::checkFile(const std::string &code, const char FileName[], std::se
                                                e.id,
                                                false);
 
-        _errorLogger.reportErr(errmsg);
+        reportErr(errmsg);
     }
     return true;
 }
diff --git a/test/testsuppressions.cpp b/test/testsuppressions.cpp
index a331273d4..345d2cd1f 100644
--- a/test/testsuppressions.cpp
+++ b/test/testsuppressions.cpp
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ private:
         TEST_CASE(inlinesuppress_unusedFunction); // #4210 - unusedFunction
         TEST_CASE(globalsuppress_unusedFunction); // #4946
         TEST_CASE(suppressionWithRelativePaths); // #4733
+        TEST_CASE(suppressingSyntaxErrors); // #7076
+        TEST_CASE(suppressingSyntaxErrorsInline); // #5917
     }
 
     void suppressionsBadId1() const {
@@ -384,6 +386,30 @@ private:
         cppCheck.check("/somewhere/test.cpp", code);
         ASSERT_EQUALS("",errout.str());
     }
+
+    void suppressingSyntaxErrors() { // syntaxErrors should be suppressable (#7076)
+        std::map<std::string, std::string> files;
+        files["test.cpp"] = "if if\n";
+
+        checkSuppression(files, "syntaxError:test.cpp:1");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
+    }
+
+    void suppressingSyntaxErrorsInline() { // syntaxErrors should be suppressable (#5917)
+        std::map<std::string, std::string> files;
+        files["test.cpp"] = "double result(0.0);\n"
+                            "_asm\n"
+                            "{\n"
+                            "   // cppcheck-suppress syntaxError\n"
+                            "   push  EAX               ; save EAX for callers \n"
+                            "   mov   EAX,Real10        ; get the address pointed to by Real10\n"
+                            "   fld   TBYTE PTR [EAX]   ; load an extended real (10 bytes)\n"
+                            "   fstp  QWORD PTR result  ; store a double (8 bytes)\n"
+                            "   pop   EAX               ; restore EAX\n"
+                            "}";
+        checkSuppression(files, "");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
+    }
 };
 
 REGISTER_TEST(TestSuppressions)