diff --git a/src/tokenize.cpp b/src/tokenize.cpp
index 6c00c5690..5f9846bdb 100644
--- a/src/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/src/tokenize.cpp
@@ -2188,8 +2188,9 @@ bool Tokenizer::simplifyKnownVariables()
                     break;
             }
 
-            else if (Token::Match(tok2, "%var% = %num% ;") ||
-                     Token::Match(tok2, "%var% = %bool% ;"))
+            else if (tok2->previous()->str() != "*" &&
+                     (Token::Match(tok2, "%var% = %num% ;") ||
+                      Token::Match(tok2, "%var% = %bool% ;")))
             {
                 unsigned int varid = tok2->varId();
                 if (varid == 0)
diff --git a/test/testmemleak.cpp b/test/testmemleak.cpp
index 3e84dbc7a..f1b3e0f58 100644
--- a/test/testmemleak.cpp
+++ b/test/testmemleak.cpp
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ private:
 
         TEST_CASE(strndup_function);
         TEST_CASE(fcloseall_function);
+        TEST_CASE(pointer_to_pointer);
     }
 
 
@@ -2188,6 +2189,16 @@ private:
         ASSERT_EQUALS(std::string(""), errout.str());
     }
 
+    void pointer_to_pointer()
+    {
+        check("void f(char **data)\n"
+              "{\n"
+              "    char *c = new char[12];\n"
+              "    *c = 0;\n"
+              "    *data = c;\n"
+              "}\n");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS(std::string(""), errout.str());
+    }
 };
 
 REGISTER_TEST(TestMemleak)