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`allocate` overloads

== Synopses

Declared in `<bdlma_countingallocator.h>`

Return a newly allocated block of memory of the specified `size` bytes.


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virtual
void*
xref:BloombergLP/bslma/Allocator/allocate-04.adoc[allocate](xref:BloombergLP/bslma/Allocator/size_type.adoc[size_type] size) = 0;
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Return a newly‐allocated block of memory of the specified `size` (in bytes). If `size` is 0, a null pointer is returned with no other effect (e.g., on allocation statistics). Otherwise, invoke the `allocate` method of the allocator supplied at construction, and increment the number of currently (and cumulatively) allocated bytes by `size`.


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virtual
void*
xref:BloombergLP/bdlma/CountingAllocator/allocate-0c.adoc[allocate](xref:BloombergLP/bsls/Types/size_type.adoc[bsls::Types::size_type] size) override;
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[[nodiscard]]
void*
xref:BloombergLP/bslma/Allocator/allocate-034.adoc[allocate](
    size_t __bytes,
    size_t __alignment = _S_max_align);
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