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# allocate
**Microsoft Specific**  
  
 The **allocate** declaration specifier names a data segment in which the data item will be allocated.  
  
## Syntax  
  
```  
  
__declspec(allocate("  
segname  
")) declarator  
```  
  
## Remarks  
 The name *segname* must be declared using one of the following pragmas:  
  
-   [code_seg](../preprocessor/code-seg.md)  
  
-   [const_seg](../preprocessor/const-seg.md)  
  
-   [data_seg](../preprocessor/data-seg.md)  
  
-   [init_seg](../preprocessor/init-seg.md)  
  
-   [section](../preprocessor/section.md)  
  
## Example  
  
```  
// allocate.cpp  
#pragma section("mycode", read)  
__declspec(allocate("mycode"))  int i = 0;  
  
int main() {  
}  
```  
  
 **END Microsoft Specific**  
  
## See Also  
 [__declspec](../cpp/declspec.md)   
 [Keywords](../cpp/keywords-cpp.md)