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Return the address providing modifiable access to the object referred to by this shared pointer, or 0 if this shared pointer does not refer to an object. Note that the behavior of this function is the same as `get`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_sharedptr.h>`

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ptr() const noexcept;
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== Description

DEPRECATED: Use `get` instead.


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