The C library heap management (malloc/free) functionality is at the base of many operations in the C and C++ runtime libraries.  Because the implementation is not defined by the C runtime library specification it can be difficult to debug memory-related problems. For that reason the internal implementation of the INtime memory heap is described in this section. There are three sections described:

• The C library heap structure may be configured and inspected using the heaps API
• The actual implementation of the heap uses the mpool API
• An API similar to the Windows CrtDbg debug interface has been implemented in the INtime C runtime.