diff --git a/lib/tokenize.cpp b/lib/tokenize.cpp
index c3b5f23cac7..1048eaca632 100644
--- a/lib/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/lib/tokenize.cpp
@@ -8587,7 +8587,7 @@ void Tokenizer::findGarbageCode() const
                 match2 = match2 || Token::Match(tok->next(), "try|catch|namespace");
             }
             if (match1 && !tok->isIncDecOp()) {
-                match2 = match2 || Token::simpleMatch(tok->next(), "=");
+                match2 = match2 || Token::Match(tok->next(), "%assign%");
             }
             if (match1 && match2)
                 syntaxError(tok);
diff --git a/test/testgarbage.cpp b/test/testgarbage.cpp
index 68441504250..acb46bfe609 100644
--- a/test/testgarbage.cpp
+++ b/test/testgarbage.cpp
@@ -1749,6 +1749,7 @@ class TestGarbage : public TestFixture {
     }
     void garbageCode225() {
         ASSERT_THROW(checkCode("int n() { c * s0, 0 s0 = c(sizeof = ) }"), InternalError);
+        ASSERT_THROW(checkCode("int n() { c * s0, 0 s0 = c(sizeof |= ) }"), InternalError);
     }
 
     void syntaxErrorFirstToken() {