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Destroy `object` by dynamic type and deallocate its memory.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_deleterhelper.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
----
template<
    class TYPE,
    class ALLOCATOR>
static
void
deleteObject(
    TYPE const* object,
    ALLOCATOR* allocator);
----

== Description

Destroy the specified `object` based on its dynamic type and then use the specified `allocator` to deallocate its memory footprint. Do nothing if `object` is a null pointer. The behavior is undefined unless `allocator` is non‐null, and `object`, when cast appropriately to `void *`, was allocated using `allocator` and has not already been deallocated. Note that `dynamic_cast<void *>(object)` is applied if `TYPE` is polymorphic, and `static_cast<void *>(object)` is applied otherwise.

== Parameters

[cols="1,4"]
|===
| Name| Description
| *object*
| object to destroy and whose memory to deallocate
| *allocator*
| allocator (or pool) that supplied `object`'s memory
|===


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