diff --git a/lib/checkuninitvar.cpp b/lib/checkuninitvar.cpp
index 7fa7c1c760b..4f611a94812 100644
--- a/lib/checkuninitvar.cpp
+++ b/lib/checkuninitvar.cpp
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ void CheckUninitVar::checkScope(const Scope* scope, const std::set<std::string>
                 tok = tok->next();
             while (Token::simpleMatch(tok->link(), "] ["))
                 tok = tok->link()->next();
-            if (Token::Match(tok->link(), "] =|{"))
+            if (Token::Match(tok->link(), "] =|{|("))
                 continue;
         }
 
diff --git a/lib/symboldatabase.cpp b/lib/symboldatabase.cpp
index b8c1e73342d..b22c5d9efc4 100644
--- a/lib/symboldatabase.cpp
+++ b/lib/symboldatabase.cpp
@@ -2309,12 +2309,12 @@ void Variable::evaluate(const Settings* settings)
 {
     // Is there initialization in variable declaration
     const Token *initTok = mNameToken ? mNameToken->next() : nullptr;
-    while (Token::Match(initTok, "[|(")) {
+    while (Token::Match(initTok, "[")) {
         initTok = initTok->link()->next();
         if (Token::simpleMatch(initTok, ")"))
             initTok = initTok->next();
     }
-    if (Token::Match(initTok, "=|{") || (initTok && initTok->isSplittedVarDeclEq()))
+    if (Token::Match(initTok, "[={(]") || (initTok && initTok->isSplittedVarDeclEq()))
         setFlag(fIsInit, true);
 
     if (!settings)
diff --git a/test/testuninitvar.cpp b/test/testuninitvar.cpp
index 3a64a9834bc..a4c7a78c5a6 100644
--- a/test/testuninitvar.cpp
+++ b/test/testuninitvar.cpp
@@ -1851,6 +1851,13 @@ class TestUninitVar : public TestFixture {
                        "    return a[0];\n"
                        "}\n");
         ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
+
+        checkUninitVar("int f() {\n" // #12355
+                       "    const int x[10](1, 2);\n"
+                       "    if (x[0] == 1) {}\n"
+                       "    return x[0];\n"
+                       "}\n");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
     }
 
     void uninitvar_pointertoarray() {
@@ -6379,6 +6386,14 @@ class TestUninitVar : public TestFixture {
                         "    char* p = new (buf) char[100];\n"
                         "}\n");
         ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
+
+        // #12355
+        valueFlowUninit("int f() {\n"
+                        "    const int x[10](1, 2);\n"
+                        "    if (x[0] == 1) {}\n"
+                        "    return x[0];\n"
+                        "}\n");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
     }
 
     void valueFlowUninitBreak() { // Do not show duplicate warnings about the same uninitialized value