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Allocate a memory block of the specified `numBytes` size and return its address. The returned memory is guaranteed to be maximally aligned. The behavior is undefined unless `0 <= numBytes`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_infrequentdeleteblocklist.h>`

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void*
allocate(int numBytes);
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