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Load the specified `deleter` for the currently managed object and reset this managed pointer to empty. Return a raw pointer to the target object (if any) managed by this pointer. It is undefined behavior to run the returned deleter unless the returned pointer to target object is not null.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_managedptr.h>`

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TARGET_TYPE*
release(xref:BloombergLP/bslma/ManagedPtrDeleter.adoc[ManagedPtrDeleter]* deleter);
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