From 1515139c94db1af34357dcbaea250214b8ce7255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chrchr-github <78114321+chrchr-github@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 10:49:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update symboldatabase.cpp

---
 lib/symboldatabase.cpp | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/symboldatabase.cpp b/lib/symboldatabase.cpp
index d391f053496..b51d10b517e 100644
--- a/lib/symboldatabase.cpp
+++ b/lib/symboldatabase.cpp
@@ -1554,6 +1554,9 @@ void SymbolDatabase::createSymbolDatabaseIncompleteVars()
                 parent = parent->astParent();
             if (Token::simpleMatch(parent, "new"))
                 continue;
+            // trailing return type
+            if (Token::simpleMatch(ftok, ".") && ftok->originalName() == "->" && Token::Match(ftok->tokAt(-1), "[])]"))
+                continue;
         }
         tok->isIncompleteVar(true);
     }

From e7e7d52eebee0ab634661643c3074705432a1306 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chrchr-github <78114321+chrchr-github@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 10:50:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update testsymboldatabase.cpp

---
 test/testsymboldatabase.cpp | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/test/testsymboldatabase.cpp b/test/testsymboldatabase.cpp
index fc684d9314b..43330c0541f 100644
--- a/test/testsymboldatabase.cpp
+++ b/test/testsymboldatabase.cpp
@@ -5845,6 +5845,16 @@ class TestSymbolDatabase : public TestFixture {
             const Token* r = Token::findsimplematch(q, "r");
             ASSERT(r && !r->isIncompleteVar());
         }
+        {
+            GET_SYMBOL_DB("void f() {\n" // #12571
+                          "    auto g = []() -> std::string* {\n"
+                          "        return nullptr;\n"
+                          "    };\n"
+                          "}\n");
+            ASSERT(db && errout_str().empty());
+            const Token* s = Token::findsimplematch(tokenizer.tokens(), "string");
+            ASSERT(s && !s->isIncompleteVar());
+        }
     }
 
     void enum1() {