> I bet anything even pure MSVC has a simple answer here You lose your bet, because it doesn't, neither its inline assembler nor actual MASM shipped with Visua

> I bet anything even pure MSVC has a simple answer here You lose your bet, because it doesn't, neither its inline assembler nor actual MASM shipped with Visual Studio support any "incbin"-like directives. I guess you can generate an .asm with a huge db/dd, I guess, if you don't like a large literal array in .c files, but that's it.