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Return the address of the modifiable message buffer&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;ball&lowbar;loggermanager&period;h&gt;`

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char*
messageBuffer();
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== Description

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

DEPRECATED&colon; Use `obtainMessageBuffer` instead&period; Do _not_ use this method in multi&hyphen;threaded code&period;

== Return Value

address of the modifiable message buffer managed by this logger


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