Introducing Mechanisms and APIs for Memory Management: Using Windows OS Native Runtime APIs

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6. Working with Microsoft CRT/UCRT and Memory Management

Roger Villela¹ 

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Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

 

In this chapter, you will learn about the CRT/UCRT and functionalities for memory management.

Microsoft CRT/UCRT and Memory Management

The Microsoft CRT/UCRT implementation is a set of functions, data structures, and runtimes that encapsulate functionalities and provide facilities for a variety of activities. These activities include memory management tasks such as memory allocation, reallocation, getting information about the blocks of memory, and the release of blocks of memory.

• The Microsoft UCRT includes only the functions ...