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Return a reference providing modifiable access to the object referred to by this shared pointer. The behavior is undefined unless this shared pointer refers to an object, and `ELEMENT_TYPE` is not (potentially `const` or `volatile` qualified) `void`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_sharedptr.h>`

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add_lvalue_reference<ELEMENT_TYPE>::type
operator*() const noexcept;
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