diff --git a/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp b/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp
index 8e380b639c7..76f6595a66d 100644
--- a/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp
+++ b/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp
@@ -380,7 +380,9 @@ void TokenInfo::identifierKind(const Cursor &cursor, Recursion recursion)
     if (cursor.isInvalidDeclaration())
         return;
 
-    if (recursion == Recursion::FirstPass && cursor.kind() != CXCursor_NotImplemented) {
+    if (recursion == Recursion::FirstPass
+            && cursor.kind() != CXCursor_NotImplemented
+            && cursor.kind() != CXCursor_PreprocessingDirective) {
         const Cursor c = realCursor(cursor);
         if (!clang_isInvalid(c.kind()) && c != cursor) {
             identifierKind(c, Recursion::FirstPass);
diff --git a/tests/unit/unittest/data/highlightingmarks.cpp b/tests/unit/unittest/data/highlightingmarks.cpp
index f4c9aa74bbb..79bca7d40d6 100644
--- a/tests/unit/unittest/data/highlightingmarks.cpp
+++ b/tests/unit/unittest/data/highlightingmarks.cpp
@@ -788,3 +788,7 @@ static inline constexpr vecn<T, S> operator<(vecn<T, S> a, vecn<T, S> b)
     }
     return x;
 }
+
+struct foo {
+#define blubb
+};
diff --git a/tests/unit/unittest/tokenprocessor-test.cpp b/tests/unit/unittest/tokenprocessor-test.cpp
index b7ebeba692e..b6acb918aba 100644
--- a/tests/unit/unittest/tokenprocessor-test.cpp
+++ b/tests/unit/unittest/tokenprocessor-test.cpp
@@ -1807,6 +1807,12 @@ TEST_F(TokenProcessor, OperatorInTemplate)
     ASSERT_THAT(infos[9], HasOnlyType(HighlightingType::Punctuation));
 }
 
+TEST_F(TokenProcessor, PreProcessorInStruct)
+{
+    const auto infos = translationUnit.tokenInfosInRange(sourceRange(793, 14));
+    ASSERT_THAT(infos[1], HasOnlyType(HighlightingType::Preprocessor));
+}
+
 Data *TokenProcessor::d;
 
 void TokenProcessor::SetUpTestCase()