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Return a pointer to the mechanism object to which this proxy forwards allocation and deallocation calls&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bslma&lowbar;stdtestallocator&period;h&gt;`

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mechanism() const;
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== Return Value

pointer to the underlying test allocator mechanism


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