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The debug C run-time library has many wonderful features—provided you turn them on in your application. Because using memory is a fact of life in our C and C++ programs, we need all the help we can get solving the problems we invariably have with memory. This chapter covered the high points of the DCRT library and presented two utilities I wrote, MemDumperValidator and MemStress, that will help you get more information about the memory your application uses and allow you to better test your application under stressful conditions.

The extensibility of the DCRT library is pretty amazing. If you've been in this business for more than a year or two, you've probably written something like it in the past. I hope I was able to give you some sense of the power of the DCRT library. I encourage you to devise other utilities and helper code that will ease your memory debugging chores.