diff --git a/glib/goption.c b/glib/goption.c
index 8ac283ce4..170b88dd2 100644
--- a/glib/goption.c
+++ b/glib/goption.c
@@ -2559,7 +2559,7 @@ g_option_context_get_description (GOptionContext *context)
 /**
  * g_option_context_parse_strv:
  * @context: a #GOptionContext
- * @arguments: (inout) (array null-terminated=1) (optional): a pointer
+ * @arguments: (inout) (array zero-terminated=1) (optional): a pointer
  *    to the command line arguments (which must be in UTF-8 on Windows).
  *    Starting with GLib 2.62, @arguments can be %NULL, which matches
  *    g_option_context_parse().