It happens to be a lot easier to reverse-engineer a program where the sections are not combined, and you can predict that strings will reliably be in the .rdata

It happens to be a lot easier to reverse-engineer a program where the sections are not combined, and you can predict that strings will reliably be in the .rdata section. While it does save a few KB, it just makes things so much nicer for the next people who need to patch features into the binary manually.