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Return the address of a contiguous block of memory of the specified `size` (in bytes) according to the alignment strategy specified at construction&period; If `size` is 0, no memory is allocated and 0 is returned&period; If the allocation request exceeds the remaining free memory space in the external buffer supplied at construction, use memory obtained from the allocator supplied at construction&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bdlma&lowbar;bufferedsequentialpool&period;h&gt;`

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