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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. If `size` is 0, no memory is allocated and 0 is returned. If the allocation request exceeds the remaining free memory space in the current internal buffer, use the allocator supplied at construction to allocate a new internal buffer, then allocate memory from the new buffer.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlma_sequentialallocator.h>`

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virtual
void*
allocate(xref:BloombergLP/bsls/Types/size_type.adoc[bsls::Types::size_type] size) override;
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