---
title: r_address
framework: Kernel
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
platforms: [macOS 10.8+]
path: kernel/relocation_info/1577793-r_address
---

# r_address

In MH_OBJECT files, an offset from the start of the section to the item containing the address requiring relocation.

## Declaration

```occ
int32_t r_address;
```

## Discussion

Discussion In images used by the dynamic linker, this is an offset from the virtual memory address of the data of the first segment_command that appears in the file (not necessarily the one with the lowest address). For images with the MH_SPLIT_SEGS flag set, this is an offset from the virtual memory address of data of the first read/write segment_command. If the high bit of this field is set (which you can check using the R_SCATTERED bit mask), the relocation_info structure is actually a scattered_relocation_info structure.