The Type field of the relocation record indicates what kind of relocation should be performed. Different relocation types are defined for each type of machine.
The following relocation type indicators are defined for Intel386 and compatible processors:
| Constant | Value | Description |
| IMAGE_REL_I386_ABSOLUTE | 0x0000 | This relocation is ignored. |
| IMAGE_REL_I386_DIR16 | 0x0001 | Not supported. |
| IMAGE_REL_I386_REL16 | 0x0002 | Not supported. |
| IMAGE_REL_I386_DIR32 | 0x0006 | The target's 32-bit virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_I386_DIR32NB | 0x0007 | The target's 32-bit relative virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_I386_SEG12 | 0x0009 | Not supported. |
| IMAGE_REL_I386_SECTION | 0x000A | The 16 bit section index of the section containing the target. This is used to support debugging information. |
| IMAGE_REL_I386_SECREL | 0x000B | The 32-bit offset of the target from the beginning of its section. This is used to support debugging information as well as static thread local storage. |
| IMAGE_REL_I386_REL32 | 0x0014 | The 32-bit relative displacement to the target. This supports the x86 relative branch and call instructions. |
The following relocation type indicators are defined for MIPS processors:
| Constant | Value | Description |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_ABSOLUTE | 0x0000 | This relocation is ignored. |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_REFHALF | 0x0001 | The high 16 bits of the target's 32-bit virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_REFWORD | 0x0002 | The target's 32-bit virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_JMPADDR | 0x0003 | The low 26 bits of the target's virtual address. This supports the MIPS J and JAL instructions. |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_REFHI | 0x0004 | The high 16 bits of the target's 32-bit virtual address. Used for the first instruction in a two-instruction sequence that loads a full address. This relocation must be immediately followed by a PAIR relocations whose SymbolTableIndex contains a signed 16 bit displacement which is added to the upper 16 bits taken from the location being relocated. |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_REFLO | 0x0005 | The low 16 bits of the target's virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_GPREL | 0x0006 | 16-bit signed displacement of the target relative to the Global Pointer (GP) register. |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_LITERAL | 0x0007 | Same as IMAGE_REL_MIPS_GPREL. |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_SECTION | 0x000A | The 16 bit section index of the section containing the target. This is used to support debugging information. |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_SECREL | 0x000B | The 32-bit offset of the target from the beginning of its section. This is used to support debugging information as well as static thread local storage. |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_SECRELLO | 0x000C | The low 16 bits of the 32-bit offset of the target from the beginning of its section. |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_SECRELHI | 0x000D | The high 16 bits of the 32-bit offset of the target from the beginning of its section. A PAIR relocation must immediately follow this on. The SymbolTableIndex of the PAIR relocation contains a signed 16 bit displacement which is added to the upper 16 bits taken from the location being relocated. |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_REFWORDNB | 0x0022 | The target's 32-bit relative virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_MIPS_PAIR | 0x0025 | This relocation is only valid when it immediately follows a REFHI or SECRELHI relocation. Its SymbolTableIndex contains a displacement and not an index into the symbol table. |
The following relocation Type indicators are defined for Alpha processors:
| Constant | Value | Description |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_ABSOLUTE | 0x0000 | This relocation is ignored. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_REFLONG | 0x0001 | The target's 32-bit virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_REFQUAD | 0x0002 | The target's 64-bit virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_GPREL32 | 0x0003 | 32-bit signed displacement of the target relative to the Global Pointer (GP) register. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_LITERAL | 0x0004 | 16-bit signed displacement of the target relative to the Global Pointer (GP) register. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_LITUSE | 0x0005 | Reserved for future use. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_GPDISP | 0x0006 | Reserved for future use. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_BRADDR | 0x0007 | The 21-bit relative displacement to the target. This supports the Alpha relative branch instructions. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_HINT | 0x0008 | 14-bit hints to the processor for the target of an Alpha jump instruction. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_INLINE_REFLONG | 0x0009 | The target's 32-bit virtual address split into high and low 16-bit parts. Either an ABSOLUTE or MATCH relocation must immediately follow this relocation. The high 16 bits of the target address are stored in the location identified by the INLINE_REFLONG relocation. The low 16 bits are stored four bytes later if the following relocation is of type ABSOLUTE or at a signed displacement given in the SymbolTableIndex if the following relocation is of type MATCH. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_REFHI | 0x000A | The high 16 bits of the target's 32-bit virtual address. Used for the first instruction in a two-instruction sequence that loads a full address. This relocation must be immediately followed by a PAIR relocations whose SymbolTableIndex contains a signed 16 bit displacement which is added to the upper 16 bits taken from the location being relocated. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_REFLO | 0x000B | The low 16 bits of the target's virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_PAIR | 0x000C | This relocation is only valid when it immediately follows a REFHI or SECRELHI relocation. Its SymbolTableIndex contains a displacement and not an index into the symbol table. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_MATCH | 0x000D | This relocation is only valid when it immediately follows INLINE_REFLONG relocation. Its SymbolTableIndex contains the displacement in bytes of the location for the matching low address and not an index into the symbol table. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_SECTION | 0x000E | The 16 bit section index of the section containing the target. This is used to support debugging information. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_SECREL | 0x000F | The 32-bit offset of the target from the beginning of its section. This is used to support debugging information as well as static thread local storage. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_REFLONGNB | 0x0010 | The target's 32-bit relative virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_SECRELLO | 0x0011 | The low 16 bits of the 32-bit offset of the target from the beginning of its section. |
| IMAGE_REL_ALPHA_SECRELHI | 0x0012 | The high 16 bits of the 32-bit offset of the target from the beginning of its section. A PAIR relocation must immediately follow this on. The SymbolTableIndex of the PAIR relocation contains a signed 16 bit displacement which is added to the upper 16 bits taken from the location being relocated. |
The following relocation Type indicators are defined for PowerPC processors:
| Constant | Value | Description |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_ABSOLUTE | 0x0000 | This relocation is ignored. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_ADDR64 | 0x0001 | The target's 64-bit virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_ADDR32 | 0x0002 | The target's 32-bit virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_ADDR24 | 0x0003 | The low 24 bits of the target's virtual address. This is only valid when the target symbol is absolute and can be sign extended to its original value. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_ADDR16 | 0x0004 | The low 16 bits of the target's virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_ADDR14 | 0x0005 | The low 14 bits of the target's virtual address. This is only valid when the target symbol is absolute and can be sign extended to its original value. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_REL24 | 0x0006 | A 24-bit PC-relative offset to the symbol's location. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_REL14 | 0x0007 | A 14-bit PC-relative offset to the symbol's location. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_ADDR32NB | 0x000A | The target's 32-bit relative virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_SECREL | 0x000B | The 32-bit offset of the target from the beginning of its section. This is used to support debugging information as well as static thread local storage. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_SECTION | 0x000C | The 16 bit section index of the section containing the target. This is used to support debugging information. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_SECREL16 | 0x000F | The 16-bit offset of the target from the beginning of its section. This is used to support debugging information as well as static thread local storage. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_REFHI | 0x0010 | The high 16 bits of the target's 32-bit virtual address. Used for the first instruction in a two-instruction sequence that loads a full address. This relocation must be immediately followed by a PAIR relocations whose SymbolTableIndex contains a signed 16 bit displacement which is added to the upper 16 bits taken from the location being relocated. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_REFLO | 0x0011 | The low 16 bits of the target's virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_PAIR | 0x0012 | This relocation is only valid when it immediately follows a REFHI or SECRELHI relocation. Its SymbolTableIndex contains a displacement and not an index into the symbol table. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_SECRELLO | 0x0013 | The low 16 bits of the 32-bit offset of the target from the beginning of its section. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_SECRELHI | 0x0014 | The high 16 bits of the 32-bit offset of the target from the beginning of its section. A PAIR relocation must immediately follow this on. The SymbolTableIndex of the PAIR relocation contains a signed 16 bit displacement which is added to the upper 16 bits taken from the location being relocated. |
| IMAGE_REL_PPC_GPREL | 0x0015 | 16-bit signed displacement of the target relative to the Global Pointer (GP) register. |
The following relocation type indicators are defined for SH3 and SH4 processors:
| Constant | Value | Description |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_ABSOLUTE | 0x0000 | This relocation is ignored. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_DIRECT16 | 0x0001 | Reference to the 16-bit location that contains the virtual address of the target symbol. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_DIRECT32 | 0x0002 | The target's 32-bit virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_DIRECT8 | 0x0003 | Reference to the 8-bit location that contains the virtual address of the target symbol. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_DIRECT8_WORD | 0x0004 | Reference to the 8-bit instruction that contains the effective 16 bit virtual address of the target symbol. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_DIRECT8_LONG | 0x0005 | Reference to the 8-bit instruction that contains the effective 32 bit virtual address of the target symbol. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_DIRECT4 | 0x0006 | Reference to the 8-bit location whose low 4 bits contain the virtual address of the target symbol. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_DIRECT4_WORD | 0x0007 | Reference to the 8-bit instruction whose low 4 bits contain the effective 16 bit virtual address of the target symbol. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_DIRECT4_LONG | 0x0008 | Reference to the 8-bit instruction whose low 4 bits contain the effective 32 bit virtual address of the target symbol. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_PCREL8_WORD | 0x0009 | Reference to the 8-bit instruction which contains the effective 16 bit relative offset of the target symbol. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_PCREL8_LONG | 0x000A | Reference to the 8-bit instruction which contains the effective 32 bit relative offset of the target symbol. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_PCREL12_WORD | 0x000B | Reference to the 16-bit instruction whose low 12 bits contain the effective 16 bit relative offset of the target symbol. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_STARTOF_SECTION | 0x000C | Reference to a 32-bit location that is the virtual address of the symbol's section. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_SIZEOF_SECTION | 0x000D | Reference to the 32-bit location that is the size of the symbol's section. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_SECTION | 0x000E | The 16 bit section index of the section containing the target. This is used to support debugging information. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_SECREL | 0x000F | The 32-bit offset of the target from the beginning of its section. This is used to support debugging information as well as static thread local storage. |
| IMAGE_REL_SH3_DIRECT32_NB | 0x0010 | The target's 32-bit relative virtual address. |
The following relocation Type indicators are defined for ARM processors:
| Constant | Value | Description |
| IMAGE_REL_ARM_ABSOLUTE | 0x0000 | This relocation is ignored. |
| IMAGE_REL_ARM_ADDR32 | 0x0001 | The target's 32-bit virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_ARM_ADDR32NB | 0x0002 | The target's 32-bit relative virtual address. |
| IMAGE_REL_ARM_BRANCH24 | 0x0003 | The 24-bit relative displacement to the target. |
| IMAGE_REL_ARM_BRANCH11 | 0x0004 | Reference to a subroutine call, consisting of two 16-bit instructions with 11-bit offsets. |
| IMAGE_REL_ARM_SECTION | 0x0005 | The 16 bit section index of the section containing the target. This is used to support debugging information. |
| IMAGE_REL_ARM_SECREL | 0x0006 | The 32-bit offset of the target from the beginning of its section. This is used to support debugging information as well as static thread local storage. |