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Return the address of the modifiable message buffer.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_loggermanager.h>`

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char*
messageBuffer();
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== Description

Return the address of the modifiable message buffer managed by this logger. Note that the returned buffer is intended to be used _only_ for formatting log messages immediately before calling `logMessage`.

DEPRECATED: Use `obtainMessageBuffer` instead. Do _not_ use this method in multi‐threaded code.

== Return Value

address of the modifiable message buffer managed by this logger


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