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Allocate a blob buffer from this blob buffer factory, and load it into the specified `buffer`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlbb_blob.h>`

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allocate(xref:BloombergLP/bdlbb/BlobBuffer.adoc[BlobBuffer]* buffer) = 0;
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