[#bsl-allocator_traits-0108-deallocate]
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Invoke `basicAllocator.deallocate(elementAddr, n)`. The behavior is undefined unless the specified `elementAddr` was returned from a prior call to the `allocate` method of an allocator that compares equal to the specified `allocator`, and has not yet been passed to a `deallocate` call of such an allocator object.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_allocatortraits.h>`

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


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