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Try to atomically acquire a shared reference to the shared object.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_sharedptrrep.h>`

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bool
tryAcquireRef();
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== Description

Atomically acquire a shared reference to the shared object referred to by this representation, if the number of shared references is greater than 0, and do nothing otherwise. Return `true` if the acquire succeeds, and `false` otherwise. The behavior is undefined unless `0 < numWeakReferences() || 0 < numReferences()`.

== Return Value

`true` if the acquire succeeds, and `false` otherwise


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