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Allocate an area of memory of the specified size `numBytes`, aligned on a page boundary. Return a pointer to allocated memory on success, and a null pointer otherwise. Note that the allocated memory is readable and writable, and read/write access to this memory, if revoked, must be restored before deallocation.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdls_memoryutil.h>`

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static
void*
allocate(int numBytes);
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