diff --git a/lib/tokenize.cpp b/lib/tokenize.cpp
index 3272939e6..9a44f6cd7 100644
--- a/lib/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/lib/tokenize.cpp
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ namespace {
                 }
             }
 
-            for (Token* type = start; Token::Match(type, "%name%|*|&"); type = type->next()) {
+            for (Token* type = start; Token::Match(type, "%name%|*|&|&&"); type = type->next()) {
                 if (type != start && Token::Match(type, "%name% ;") && !type->isStandardType()) {
                     mRangeType.first = start;
                     mRangeType.second = type;
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ namespace {
 
             // Unsplit variable declarations
             if (tok4 && tok4->isSplittedVarDeclEq() &&
-                ((tok4->isCpp() && Token::Match(tok4->tokAt(-2), "& %name% ;")) || Token::Match(tok4->previous(), "] ; %name% = {"))) {
+                ((tok4->isCpp() && Token::Match(tok4->tokAt(-2), "&|&& %name% ;")) || Token::Match(tok4->previous(), "] ; %name% = {"))) {
                 tok4->deleteNext();
                 tok4->deleteThis();
             }
diff --git a/test/testsimplifytypedef.cpp b/test/testsimplifytypedef.cpp
index 1e5570e6f..89a38f394 100644
--- a/test/testsimplifytypedef.cpp
+++ b/test/testsimplifytypedef.cpp
@@ -2517,7 +2517,7 @@ private:
     void simplifyTypedef109() {
         const char code[] = "typedef int&& rref;\n"
                             "rref var = 0;";
-        const char expected[] = "int && var ; var = 0 ;";
+        const char expected[] = "int && var = 0 ;";
         ASSERT_EQUALS(expected, tok(code));
         ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
     }