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Allocate a maximally aligned block of the specified `size`.

== Synopses

Declared in `<ball_countingallocator.h>`

Allocate a maximally aligned block of the specified `size`.


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void*
xref:BloombergLP/ball/CountingAllocator/allocate-09.adoc[allocate](xref:BloombergLP/bslma/Allocator/size_type.adoc[size_type] size) override;
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void*
xref:BloombergLP/bslma/Allocator/allocate-034.adoc[allocate](
    size_t __bytes,
    size_t __alignment = _S_max_align);
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