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Initialize the specified `atomicPtr` and set its value to the optionally specified `initialValue`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bsls_atomicoperations_default.h>`

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static
void
initPointer(
    AtomicTypes::Pointer* atomicPtr,
    void* initialValue = 0);
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