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Return the memory at the specified `address` back to this allocator and update the byte count maintained by this counting allocator appropriately. If `address` is 0, this function has no effect. The behavior is undefined unless `address` was allocated using this allocator and has not already been deallocated.

== Synopses

Declared in `<ball_countingallocator.h>`

Return the memory at the specified `address` back to this allocator and update the byte count maintained by this counting allocator appropriately. If `address` is 0, this function has no effect. The behavior is undefined unless `address` was allocated using this allocator and has not already been deallocated.


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void
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    void* __p,
    size_t __bytes,
    size_t __alignment = _S_max_align);
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