Build/link - quick question

[RedXVII]

Any particular reason why you added:

/MERGE:.data=.text /MERGE:.rdata=.text /SECTION:.text,ERW

in the release? just wondered, im not really sue what it does but i could hazard a geuss at making it smaller? more compact? care to enlighten me?  :P

thx

:U

[hitchhikr]

It merges the initialised & uninitialised datas together with the code into one single section & make that section readable, writable & executable.  The final exe is smaller, yes.