diff --git a/lib/exprengine.cpp b/lib/exprengine.cpp
index 8fbee8145..b5f18fbee 100644
--- a/lib/exprengine.cpp
+++ b/lib/exprengine.cpp
@@ -2011,12 +2011,12 @@ static ExprEngine::ValuePtr executeCast(const Token *tok, Data &data)
 
 static ExprEngine::ValuePtr executeDot(const Token *tok, Data &data)
 {
-    if (!tok->astOperand1() || !tok->astOperand1()->varId()) {
-        auto v = getValueRangeFromValueType(tok->valueType(), data);
+    if (!tok->astOperand1()) {
+        auto v = std::make_shared<ExprEngine::BailoutValue>();
         call(data.callbacks, tok, v, &data);
         return v;
     }
-    std::shared_ptr<ExprEngine::StructValue> structValue = std::dynamic_pointer_cast<ExprEngine::StructValue>(data.getValue(tok->astOperand1()->varId(), nullptr, nullptr));
+    std::shared_ptr<ExprEngine::StructValue> structValue = std::dynamic_pointer_cast<ExprEngine::StructValue>(executeExpression(tok->astOperand1(), data));
     if (!structValue) {
         if (tok->originalName() == "->") {
             std::shared_ptr<ExprEngine::ArrayValue> pointerValue = std::dynamic_pointer_cast<ExprEngine::ArrayValue>(data.getValue(tok->astOperand1()->varId(), nullptr, nullptr));
diff --git a/test/testbughuntingchecks.cpp b/test/testbughuntingchecks.cpp
index ebcaae6de..5d7204fe8 100644
--- a/test/testbughuntingchecks.cpp
+++ b/test/testbughuntingchecks.cpp
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ private:
         TEST_CASE(checkAssignment);
         TEST_CASE(arrayIndexOutOfBounds1);
         TEST_CASE(arrayIndexOutOfBounds2);
+        TEST_CASE(arrayIndexOutOfBounds3);
         TEST_CASE(bufferOverflowMemCmp1);
         TEST_CASE(bufferOverflowMemCmp2);
         TEST_CASE(bufferOverflowStrcpy1);
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ private:
                       errout.str());
     }
 
-    void arrayIndexOutOfBounds2() {
+    void arrayIndexOutOfBounds2() { // loop
         check("void foo(int n) {\n"
               "  int p[8];\n"
               "  for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)\n"
@@ -106,6 +107,18 @@ private:
                       errout.str());
     }
 
+    void arrayIndexOutOfBounds3() { // struct
+        check("struct S { int x; };\n"
+              "void foo(short i) {\n"
+              "  S s[8];\n"
+              "  if (s[i].x == 0) {}\n"
+              "}");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("[test.cpp:4]: (error) Array index out of bounds, cannot determine that i is less than 8\n"
+                      "[test.cpp:4]: (error) Array index out of bounds, cannot determine that i is not negative\n"
+                      "[test.cpp:4]: (error) Cannot determine that 's[i]' is initialized\n",
+                      errout.str());
+    }
+
     void bufferOverflowMemCmp1() {
         // CVE-2020-24265
         check("void foo(const char *pktdata, int datalen) {\n"