diff --git a/lib/tokenize.cpp b/lib/tokenize.cpp
index 2279f16a80e..8eb139f0b36 100644
--- a/lib/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/lib/tokenize.cpp
@@ -9109,7 +9109,8 @@ void Tokenizer::findGarbageCode() const
             if (tok->strAt(1) == "(")
                 syntaxError(tok);
             else if (!(tok->tokType() == Token::Type::eString && Token::simpleMatch(tok->tokAt(-1), "extern")) &&
-                     !(tok->tokType() == Token::Type::eBoolean && cpp && Token::simpleMatch(tok->tokAt(-1), "requires")))
+                     !(tok->tokType() == Token::Type::eBoolean && cpp && Token::simpleMatch(tok->tokAt(-1), "requires")) &&
+                     !Token::simpleMatch(tok->linkAt(1), "} ;"))
                 syntaxError(tok);
         }
         if (Token::Match(tok, "( ) %num%|%bool%|%char%|%str%"))
diff --git a/test/testtokenize.cpp b/test/testtokenize.cpp
index ddccaa62584..ecfc169bba8 100644
--- a/test/testtokenize.cpp
+++ b/test/testtokenize.cpp
@@ -8128,6 +8128,7 @@ class TestTokenizer : public TestFixture {
         ignore_errout();
 
         ASSERT_EQUALS(";", tokenizeAndStringify("typedef std::size_t size_t;\n")); // #14809
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("struct S { int i { 0 } ; } ;", tokenizeAndStringify("struct S { int i : 1{0}; };\n")); // #15070
     }