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Allocate a memory block of the `objectSize` specified at construction. Return the address of that block or 0 if the pool is exhausted (i.e., `poolSize()` memory blocks have already been allocated from this pool).

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlma_concurrentfixedpool.h>`

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void*
allocate();
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