From 3542177a3c6909bfad39b3ce57e8dc79a0c0e4dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rico Tzschichholz <ricotz@ubuntu.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2024 16:53:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] girparser: Don't discard explictly given ctype of parameters

---
 vala/valagirparser.vala | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/vala/valagirparser.vala b/vala/valagirparser.vala
index 703e3974e..ed8f62ef0 100644
--- a/vala/valagirparser.vala
+++ b/vala/valagirparser.vala
@@ -2669,8 +2669,12 @@ public class Vala.GirParser : CodeVisitor {
 			bool changed;
 			type = element_get_type (type, direction == "out" || direction == "inout", ref no_array_length, ref array_null_terminated, out changed);
 			if (!changed) {
-				// discard ctype, duplicated information
-				ctype = null;
+				if (metadata.has_argument (ArgumentType.CTYPE)) {
+					ctype = metadata.get_string (ArgumentType.CTYPE);
+				} else {
+					// discard ctype, duplicated information
+					ctype = null;
+				}
 			}
 
 			param = new Parameter (name, type, get_src (begin));
-- 
2.47.2