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Return the `bslma::Allocator` pointer held by the specified `a` object of non‐pointer class. Compilation will fail if type `ALLOC` does not provide a `mechanism()` accessor returning a pointer to type convertible to `bslma::Allocator *`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_constructionutil.h>`

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template<class ALLOC>
static
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adapt(ALLOC const& a);
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