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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 84dfb9ea..379907c9 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ distributed with Pine from the University of Washington. Other
POP3 servers have been known to give it indigestion. Test carefully!
If you have problems, try to switch to IMAP.
+A couple of users have reported that some recent (post-2.7.2) versions
+of gcc seem to have an optimizer bug that affects fetchmail. If your
+fetchmail core dumps (especially near startup) try recompiling without
+-O. Alternatively, you can drop back to gcc 2.7.2 or below.
+
6. USE IT
Enjoy!
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 28d591c1..2614503c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
Release Notes:
-pl 1.9.8 (Mon Nov 4 12:28:25 EST 1996):
+pl 1.9.8 (Wed Nov 6 16:40:34 EST 1996):
* Don't append spurious NUL to the headers, qmail actually notices it.
+* Fatal bug in multidrop code fixed.
* Fail cleanly, instead of core-dumping, on mail lacking an RFC822 From line.
pl 1.9.7 (Fri Nov 1 10:02:34 EST 1996):