diff --git a/binfmt/libnxflat/libnxflat_bind.c b/binfmt/libnxflat/libnxflat_bind.c
index 1d0c8d661f3..4489ebfcd83 100644
--- a/binfmt/libnxflat/libnxflat_bind.c
+++ b/binfmt/libnxflat/libnxflat_bind.c
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static inline int nxflat_gotrelocs(FAR struct nxflat_loadinfo_s *loadinfo)
   /* From this, we can get the offset to the list of relocation entries */
 
   offset  = ntohl(hdr->h_relocstart);
-  nrelocs = ntohl(hdr->h_reloccount);
+  nrelocs = ntohs(hdr->h_reloccount);
 
   /* The value of the relocation list that we get from the header is a
    * file offset.  We will have to convert this to an offset into the
diff --git a/binfmt/libnxflat/libnxflat_init.c b/binfmt/libnxflat/libnxflat_init.c
index 8bc9aef9908..6a7a987482a 100644
--- a/binfmt/libnxflat/libnxflat_init.c
+++ b/binfmt/libnxflat/libnxflat_init.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ int nxflat_init(const char *filename, struct nxflat_hdr_s *header,
    */
 
   loadinfo->relocstart  = ntohl(header->h_relocstart);
-  loadinfo->reloccount  = ntohl(header->h_reloccount);
+  loadinfo->reloccount  = ntohs(header->h_reloccount);
 
   return 0;
 }
diff --git a/binfmt/nxflat.c b/binfmt/nxflat.c
index 8aee2fdd064..534f18caeda 100644
--- a/binfmt/nxflat.c
+++ b/binfmt/nxflat.c
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static void nxflat_dumploadinfo(struct nxflat_loadinfo_s *loadinfo)
 
   bdbg("  RELOCS:\n");
   bdbg("    relocstart:   %08lx\n", loadinfo->relocstart);
-  bdbg("    reloccount:   %08lx\n", loadinfo->reloccount);
+  bdbg("    reloccount:   %04lx\n", loadinfo->reloccount);
 
   bdbg("  HANDLES:\n");
   bdbg("    filfd:        %d\n",    loadinfo->filfd);
diff --git a/include/nuttx/nxflat.h b/include/nuttx/nxflat.h
index 779d1ade8f1..8c43917ce30 100644
--- a/include/nuttx/nxflat.h
+++ b/include/nuttx/nxflat.h
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ struct nxflat_loadinfo_s
   /* This is temporary memory where relocation records will be loaded. */
 
   uint32 relocstart;       /* Start of array of struct flat_reloc */
-  uint32 reloccount;       /* Number of elements in reloc array */
+  uint16 reloccount;       /* Number of elements in reloc array */
 
   /* File descriptors */
 
diff --git a/include/nxflat.h b/include/nxflat.h
index f65310244d5..8e551b25260 100644
--- a/include/nxflat.h
+++ b/include/nxflat.h
@@ -109,11 +109,9 @@ struct nxflat_hdr_s
    * h_relocstart - Offset to the beginning of an array of relocation
    *                records (struct nxflat_reloc).  The offset is
    *                relative to the start of the file
-   * h_reloccount - The number of relocation records in the arry
    */
 
   uint32 h_relocstart;       /* Offset of relocation records */
-  uint32 h_reloccount;       /* Number of relocation records */
 
   /* Imported symbol table (NOTE no symbols are exported):
    *
@@ -124,10 +122,17 @@ struct nxflat_hdr_s
    *                   array contains an uint32 offset (again from
    *                   the beginning of the file) to the name of
    *                   a symbol string.  This string is null-terminated.
-   * h_importcount   - The number of records in the h_exportsymbols array.
    */
 
   uint32 h_importsymbols;    /* Offset to list of imported symbols */
+
+  /* 16-bit counts
+   *
+   * h_reloccount  - The number of relocation records in the arry
+   * h_importcount - The number of records in the h_importsymbols array.
+   */
+
+  uint16 h_reloccount;       /* Number of relocation records */
   uint16 h_importcount;      /* Number of imported symbols */
 };