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Visual Studio 2012
A C++ program can call on a large number of functions from this conforming implementation of the Standard C++ Library. These functions perform essential services such as input and output and provide efficient implementations of frequently used operations.
For more information about Visual C++ run-time libraries, see CRT Library Features.