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Return a copy of the allocator used to construct this hash table. Note that this is not the allocator used to allocate elements for this hash table, which is instead a copy of that allocator rebound to allocate the nodes used by the internal data structure of this hash table.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_hashtable.h>`

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ALLOCATOR
allocator() const;
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