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This `class` provides a default concrete implementation of the `Deleter` protocol. Instances of `DefaultDeleter<TYPE>` either use an allocator optionally supplied at construction, or the currently installed default allocator if an allocator is not provided.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlma_defaultdeleter.h>`

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template<class TYPE>
class DefaultDeleter
    : public xref:BloombergLP/bdlma/Deleter.adoc[Deleter<TYPE>]
----

== Base Classes

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| Name| Description
| `xref:BloombergLP/bdlma/Deleter.adoc[Deleter<TYPE>]`
| Provide a protocol (or pure interface) for a thread‐safe object deleter.
|===

== Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlma/DefaultDeleter/2constructor.adoc[`DefaultDeleter`]         [.small]#[constructor]#
| Create a default deleter. Optionally specify a `basicAllocator` used to manage the memory footprint of objects passed to the `deleteObject` method. If `basicAllocator` is 0, the currently installed default allocator is used.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlma/DefaultDeleter/2destructor.adoc[`~DefaultDeleter`] [.small]#[destructor]# [.small]#[virtual]#
| Destroy this default deleter.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlma/DefaultDeleter/deleteObject.adoc[`deleteObject`]  [.small]#[virtual]#
| Destroy the specified `instance` based on its static type and return its memory footprint to the appropriate memory manager. The behavior is undefined unless the memory for the footprint of `instance` was supplied by the same allocator as is used by this default deleter. Note that this method does not destroy the deleter itself.
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