shiboken6: Introduce a helper for dereferencing arguments

Task-number: PYSIDE-2065
Change-Id: I3a7136be7eaf8362afb7b84082db1da73a7cbdee
Reviewed-by: Adrian Herrmann <adrian.herrmann@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Shyamnath Premnadh <Shyamnath.Premnadh@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Cristian Maureira-Fredes <cristian.maureira-fredes@qt.io>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/sources/shiboken6/generator/shiboken/cppgenerator.cpp b/sources/shiboken6/generator/shiboken/cppgenerator.cpp
index c447381d6..c7158c124 100644
--- a/sources/shiboken6/generator/shiboken/cppgenerator.cpp
+++ b/sources/shiboken6/generator/shiboken/cppgenerator.cpp
@@ -3912,10 +3912,8 @@ void CppGenerator::writeMethodCall(TextStream &s, const AbstractMetaFunctionCPtr
                     } else {
                         const int idx = arg.argumentIndex() - removedArgs;
                         const auto deRef = arg.type().shouldDereferenceArgument();
-                        QString argName;
-                        if (deRef > 0)
-                            argName += QString(deRef, u'*');
-                        argName += CPP_ARG + QString::number(idx);
+                        QString argName = AbstractMetaType::dereferencePrefix(deRef)
+                                          + CPP_ARG + QString::number(idx);
                         userArgs.append(argName);
                     }
                 }