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The allocator's pointer type.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_allocatortraits.h>`

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using pointer = __detected_or_t<value_type*, __pointer, _Alloc>;
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== Description

`Alloc::pointer` if that type exists, otherwise `value_type*`


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