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Return the address of a contiguous block of memory of the specified `size` (in bytes). If `size` is 0, no memory is allocated and 0 is returned. The returned memory is guaranteed to be maximally aligned.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlma_blocklist.h>`

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void*
allocate(xref:BloombergLP/bsls/Types/size_type.adoc[bsls::Types::size_type] size);
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