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Return the address of the current thread's attribute context, if such context exists; otherwise, create an attribute context, install it in thread‐local storage, and return the address of the newly created context. Note that this method can be invoked safely even if the `initialize` class method has not yet been called.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_attributecontext.h>`

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