[#bsl-allocator_traits-0108-allocate-0c]
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Return `basicAllocator.allocate(n)`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_allocatortraits.h>`

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static
xref:bsl/allocator_traits-0108/pointer.adoc[pointer]
allocate(
    ALLOCATOR_TYPE& basicAllocator,
    xref:bsl/allocator_traits-0108/size_type.adoc[size_type] n);
----


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