base-address Specifies the address at which the image is to be loaded in virtual memory. You can specify a base address in hexadecimal (%X), octal (%O), or decimal (%D) format. The default base address is %X80000000. Note that if you specify the /HEADER qualifier, the linker adjusts the base address to the next highest page boundary if it is not already a page boundary. The next highest page boundary is the smallest number that is greater than the value specified in the base-address parameter and that is divisible by the default page size (which is architecture specific) or the page size specified using the /BPAGE qualifier.