API question: dbus_message_iter_append_simple

[Thiago Macieira]

Daniel Stone wrote:
>Hi,
>Why does this take a pointer to a string?
>
>i.e.,
>char *foo = strdup("some test data");
>dbus_message_iter_append_basic(&iter, DBUS_TYPE_STRING, &foo);
>instead of:
>dbus_message_iter_append_basic(&iter, DBUS_TYPE_STRING, "some test
> data");

Answered in the other email.

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