diff --git a/lib/checkother.cpp b/lib/checkother.cpp
index 979ea4ffdad..3b8cb899248 100644
--- a/lib/checkother.cpp
+++ b/lib/checkother.cpp
@@ -3794,6 +3794,8 @@ void CheckOther::checkEvaluationOrder()
                 continue;
             if (!tok->astOperand1())
                 continue;
+            if (tok->astOperand1()->str() == "." && !tok->astOperand1()->astOperand2())
+                continue;
             for (const Token *tok2 = tok;; tok2 = tok2->astParent()) {
                 // If ast parent is a sequence point then break
                 const Token * const parent = tok2->astParent();
diff --git a/test/testother.cpp b/test/testother.cpp
index 55fbe3830f1..0cfa173faf6 100644
--- a/test/testother.cpp
+++ b/test/testother.cpp
@@ -11935,9 +11935,9 @@ class TestOther : public TestFixture {
     // TODO: only used in a single place
 #define checkCustomSettings(...) checkCustomSettings_(__FILE__, __LINE__, __VA_ARGS__)
     template<size_t size>
-    void checkCustomSettings_(const char* file, int line, const char (&code)[size], const Settings& settings) {
+    void checkCustomSettings_(const char* file, int line, const char (&code)[size], const Settings& settings, bool cpp = true) {
         // Tokenize..
-        SimpleTokenizer tokenizer(settings, *this);
+        SimpleTokenizer tokenizer(settings, *this, cpp);
         ASSERT_LOC(tokenizer.tokenize(code), file, line);
 
         // Check..
@@ -12010,6 +12010,12 @@ class TestOther : public TestFixture {
                             "  i = i++ + 2;\n"
                             "}", settings11);
         ASSERT_EQUALS("[test.cpp:2:11]: (error) Expression 'i+++2' depends on order of evaluation of side effects [unknownEvaluationOrder]\n", errout_str());
+
+        // #14431
+        checkCustomSettings("int f(void) {\n"
+                            "  struct baz baz = {.bar = {.foo = {.foo = 1}}};\n"
+                            "}\n", settings0, false);
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout_str());
     }
 
     void testEvaluationOrderSelfAssignment() {