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Return the address of the first byte of this object.

== Synopses

Declared in `<bsls_alignedbuffer.h>`

Return the address of the first byte of this object.


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Return the address of the first byte of this object.


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== Return Value

* address of the first byte of this object, cast to a `char*`
* address of the first byte of this object, cast to a `const char*`


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