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Generate and return a single GUID meeting the RFC 4122 version 4 specification, consisting of 122 randomly generated bits, two "variant" bits set to `10`, and four "version" bits set to `0100`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlb_guidutil.h>`

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generate();
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