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Return the memory at the specified `address` back to the associated allocator. If `address` is 0, this function has no effect. The behavior is undefined unless `address` was allocated by this object, and has not already been deallocated.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlma_blocklist.h>`

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void
deallocate(void* address);
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