Are "#define new DEBUG_NEW" and "#undef THIS_FILE" etc. actually necessary?

On Microsoft Visual C++ 2010, I can remove the whole code and put just one #define NEW DEBUG_NEW in a header, and I still got the right memory leak reports, e.g.

Detected memory leaks!
Dumping objects ->
f:\dd\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfc\src\mfc\strcore.cpp(156) : {7508} normal block at 0x029B9598, 54 bytes long.
 Data: <                > E4 B8 C9 00 12 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 
f:\dd\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfc\src\mfc\strcore.cpp(156) : {7501} normal block at 0x029B94A8, 28 bytes long.
 Data: <                > E4 B8 C9 00 05 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 
f:\source\agent\agent\deviceid.cpp(21) : {7500} normal block at 0x029CDFC0, 8 bytes long.
 Data: <        > A8 95 9B 02 B8 94 9B 02 
f:\dd\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfc\src\mfc\strcore.cpp(156) : {6786} normal block at 0x029C0D88, 160 bytes long.
 Data: <        G       > E4 B8 C9 00 19 00 00 00 47 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 
f:\source\agent\sysinfo\sysinfo.cpp(27) : {6733} normal block at 0x029B84D8, 92 bytes long.
 Data: <                > 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 01 00 FF FF FE 7F 
Object dump complete.

It is perfectly safe to delete this. It's a debugging aid; leaving it in will generate better details in the warnings in the output window of any memory leaks you have when the program exits. If you delete it, you still get the memory leak report, but just without any details about where in your source code they occurred.