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Atomically increment the number of shared references to the shared object referred to by this representation by the optionally specified `incrementAmount`. The behavior is undefined unless `0 < incrementAmount` and `0 < numReferences()`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_sharedptrrep.h>`

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void
incrementRefs(int incrementAmount = 1);
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== Description

DEPRECATED: Use `acquireRef` instead.


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