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Return a reference providing modifiable access to the underlying `t_TYPE` object. The behavior is undefined if the `Optional_Base` object is disengaged. Note that this function is only intended to be called by `bdlb::NullableValue::value` during transition of its implementation to use 'bsl::Optional_Base. Note that ref‐qualified versions of `value()` are not provided because `NullableValue` does not require them.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_optional.h>`

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t_TYPE&
dereferenceRaw();
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