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Destroy the specified `object` of the parameterized `TYPE`, as if by calling the `TYPE` destructor, but do not deallocate the memory occupied by `object`. Note that the destructor may deallocate other memory owned by `object`. Also note that this function is a no‐op if the `TYPE` has the trivial destructor trait.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_destructionutil.h>`

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template<class TYPE>
static
void
destroy(TYPE* object);
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