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Return a managed pointer to this thread's message‐formatting buffer.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_log.h>`

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obtainMessageBuffer(int* bufferSize);
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== Description

Return a managed pointer that refers to the memory block to which this thread of execution has exclusive access and load the size (in bytes) of this buffer into the specified `bufferSize` address. Note that this method is intended for _internal_ _use_ only.

== Return Value

managed pointer to this thread's exclusive message buffer

== Parameters

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| Name| Description
| *bufferSize*
| address at which to store the buffer size in bytes
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