diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf.test b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf.test
index cf73c992..db1c6033 100644
--- a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf.test
+++ b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf.test
@@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ for (my $n = 16; $n <= 19; ++$n)
 show_ntests();
 # ----------
 $td->notify("--- Specific File Tests ---");
-$n_tests += 4;
+$n_tests += 5;
 $n_compare_pdfs += 1;
 
 # Special PDF files that caused problems at some point
@@ -961,6 +961,10 @@ $td->runtest("damaged stream",
 	     {$td->COMMAND => "qpdf --check damaged-stream.pdf"},
 	     {$td->FILE => "damaged-stream.out", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 3},
 	     $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
+$td->runtest("damaged stream (C)",
+	     {$td->COMMAND => "qpdf-ctest 2 damaged-stream.pdf '' a.pdf"},
+	     {$td->FILE => "damaged-stream-c-check.out", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 0},
+	     $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
 
 show_ntests();
 # ----------
diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/damaged-stream-c-check.out b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/damaged-stream-c-check.out
index b1723623..501806d2 100644
--- a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/damaged-stream-c-check.out
+++ b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/damaged-stream-c-check.out
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-warning: damaged-stream.pdf: offset 426: error decoding stream data for object 5 0: LZWDecoder: bad code received
+warning: damaged-stream.pdf (file position 426): error decoding stream data for object 5 0: LZWDecoder: bad code received
+  code: 5
+  file: damaged-stream.pdf
+  pos : 426
+  text: error decoding stream data for object 5 0: LZWDecoder: bad code received