Have you actually tried this? Merging .data into .text doesn't work. The binary doesn't run and there's this link warning: > LINK : warning LNK4254: section '.

Have you actually tried this? Merging .data into .text doesn't work. The binary doesn't run and there's this link warning: > LINK : warning LNK4254: section '.data' (C0000040) merged into '.text' (60000020) with different attributes