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== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_allocator.h>`

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[[nodiscard]]
void*
allocate(
    size_t __bytes,
    size_t __alignment = _S_max_align);
----

== Return Value

[NOTE]
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The return value https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/language/attributes/nodiscard[should not be discarded^].
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