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Initialize the static data members of `AttributeContext` using the specified `categoryManager`. Optionally specify a `globalAllocator` used to supply memory. If `globalAllocator` is 0, the currently installed global allocator is used. Unless `reset` is subsequently called, invoking this method more than once will log an error message using `bsls::Log::platformDefaultMessageHandler`, but will have no other effect. Note that in practice this method will be called _automatically_ when the `LoggerManager` singleton is initialized ‐‐ i.e., it is not intended to be called directly by clients of the `ball` package.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_attributecontext.h>`

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static
void
initialize(
    xref:BloombergLP/ball/CategoryManager.adoc[CategoryManager]* categoryManager,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslma/Allocator.adoc[bslma::Allocator]* globalAllocator = 0);
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