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Return the length of data in the initial buffer, i.e., `dataLength()` if there is no overflow buffer, or `initialBufferSize()` if there is one.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlsb_overflowmemoutput.h>`

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std::size_t
dataLengthInInitialBuffer() const;
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