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Project Support Forums => OpenGL Forum => Topic started by: RedXVII on November 16, 2005, 05:39:19 PM

Title: Build/link - quick question
Post by: RedXVII on November 16, 2005, 05:39:19 PM
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
Title: Re: Build/link - quick question
Post by: hitchhikr on November 16, 2005, 08:00:12 PM
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.