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== Synopsis

Declared in `<bits/memory_resource.h>`

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[[nodiscard]]
void*
allocate_bytes(
    size_t __nbytes,
    size_t __alignment = alignof(max_align_t));
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== 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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