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Return a reference to the value currently pointed to by this object&period; The behavior is undefined if this pointer has a value of 0&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bsls&lowbar;atomic&period;h&gt;`

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TYPE&
operator&ast;() const;
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== Return Value

a reference to the value currently pointed to by this object


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