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Return the memory block at the specified `address` back to this allocator. If `address` is 0, this method has no effect. Otherwise, the guard page associated with `address` is unprotected and also deallocated. The behavior is undefined unless `address` was returned by `allocate` and has not already been deallocated.

== Synopses

Declared in `<bdlma_guardingallocator.h>`

Return the memory block at the specified `address` back to this allocator. If `address` is 0, this method has no effect. Otherwise, the guard page associated with `address` is unprotected and also deallocated. The behavior is undefined unless `address` was returned by `allocate` and has not already been deallocated.


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    void* __p,
    size_t __bytes,
    size_t __alignment = _S_max_align);
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