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Release ownership and return the target pointer with its deleter.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_managedptr.h>`

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== Description

Return a raw pointer to the current target object (if any) and the deleter for the currently managed object, and reset this managed pointer to empty. It is undefined behavior to run the returned deleter unless the returned pointer to target object is not null.

== Return Value

pair of the target pointer and the deleter for the managed object


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