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Return a reference to the modifiable underlying `bdlc::Queue` object used by this queue. Any access to the returned queue MUST first lock the associated mutex object (see the `mutex` method) in a multi‐threaded environment. And when items are directly added to the queue returned by this method, the associated condition variable (see the `condition` method) should be signaled to notify any waiting threads of the availability of the new data.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlcc_queue.h>`

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== Description

The (error‐prone) usage of this method will be replaced by an appropriate smart‐pointer‐like proctor object in the future. Meanwhile, use this method with caution.


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