title: Should I change my Image Base?
body: <p>In Delphi the <strong>Image Base</strong> linker option defaults to <em>00400000</em>.  </p>
  
  <p>Per the help:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Specifies the preferred load address
    of the compiled image. This value is
    typically only changed when compiling
    DLLs. Default = 400000</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Is there no effect for changing it on EXE's?  What would the effect be?  Is the address relative to each process?</p>