On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:34:28 -0800 Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote:

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Support for the above is enabled by default for all architectures except
IA-64, whose symbols are too far apart to capture in this manner.

scripts/kallsyms.c: In function 'record_relative_base':
scripts/kallsyms.c:744: error: 'ULLONG_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/kallsyms.c:744: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
scripts/kallsyms.c:744: error: for each function it appears in.)

That's with (ancient) glibc-headers-2.5-3.  It appears that limits.h's
ULLONG_MAX requires "#ifdef __USE_ISOC99".  I'm not sure what's the
correct way of turning this on.

Actually, how about we replace it with -1ULL and get on with life.