diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 2994630a403d6f41f6828d65db85b1ec2db639ec..5713cd49baf74224dc0246bd7067b36923ae2772 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -35,8 +35,10 @@ i386 targets. Sufficiently recent versions of PCC and LLVM/clang are
 also believed to work, but have not been tested as heavily; prior to
 Fall 2012, both had known bugs that affected musl. Firm/cparser is
 also believed to work but lacks support for producing shared
-libraries. GCC 4.9.0 is known to have a serious bug (#61144) which
-affects musl and is not supported.
+libraries. GCC 4.9.0 and 4.9.1 are known to have a serious bug
+(#61144) which affects musl. Beginning with version 1.1.4 musl
+attempts to work around the bug, but these compiler versions are still
+considered unstable and unsupported.