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Returns a non‐null reference to the data managed by this instance.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<absl/strings/cord_buffer.h>`

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== Description

Applications are allowed to write up to `capacity` bytes of instance data. CordBuffer data is uninitialized by default. Reading data from an instance that has not yet been initialized will lead to undefined behavior.

== Return Value

A pointer to the managed data.


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